THE MAN implicated in Volume 6 of the Zondo Report, in a scheme to essentially defraud South Africa's intelligence agency the SSA of millions of Rands via widescale abuse of state funds, including serious breaches of national security whilst DG of...
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This is not a bread riot, this is Zuma’s Stalingrad strategy redux
AFTER keeping millions of landless and dispossessed citizens in abject poverty for decades, by stealing money meant for poverty relief, it appears Jacob Zuma may be having the last laugh from jail. The sizeable ranks of unemployed are now his willing foot-soldiers in a political game many refer t...
No Mr President, your narrative isn’t true.
Dear Ed, President Zuma' recent comments on the "nuclear programme" refers. The narrative provided by President Zuma isn't true. In a recent address the president suggests it was pressure from the West which lead "the apartheid government to dismantle its nuclear weapons and programmes before the...
Competing visions for a new South Africa
TWO parties, each with contradictory and competing visions for South Africa's future, hold centre stage. In the one corner, the African National Congress with its legacy of struggle against apartheid and nation building, that has increasingly come under the spotlight with revelations of corruptio...
Has the environmental movement failed?
THE announcement of a green-light to Karoo fracking couldn't have come at a worse time. The very same week, saw the world pummelled by kill the environment ideologue Donald Trump, who two days ago, scrapped Obama climate change policies. Thus Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane was merely...
End of the road for Zuma’s ANC?
THE LOSS of the Johannesburg, Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay metros, means all major South African centres with the exception of Durban, Bloemfontein and Kimberley are now controlled by the opposition Democratic Alliance. It is a major upset for the ANC, a political movement which has ruled South Af...