The authors of Joe Modise’s biography set out to debunk smears against him.
- Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
Following Jacob Zuma’s tenure, during which corruption became endemic, tarnishing the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa was touted as the party’s saviour. But he failed to impress.
The president’s speech couldn’t cover up for the fact that the last five years have been among the most difficult for ordinary South Africans.
The 2024 general elections will show to what extent the new provincial leadership can start to turn around the ANC’s fortunes in the Western Cape.
The Zondo Commission was globally unique in scope and scale. The book selects and explains its key findings and recommendations.
L'Union africaine tient la comparaison avec les autres unions continentales. Elle accomplit davantage que le Commonwealth ou la Francophonie.
The book shows how parts of South Africa now fester with organised crime.
The African Union compares well to other continental unions. It accomplishes more than the Commonwealth or the Francophonie.
With Africa’s solid support and his pro-west military and policy adventures, Kagame is able to take on critics.
The veteran liberation struggle activist brings gravitas to every position he occupies.
The country’s long-dominant party has been losing support in elections.
The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.
To his credit, former South African president Thabo Mbeki set up anti-corruption institutions that survived his own efforts to erode them.
Summit provides opportunity to showcase modernity of Kigali and government achievements.
Extra-parliamentary politics forms part of a deeper defence that will give democracy more resilience in South Africa.
The relationship between South Africa and the West, especially the US, has a complex history. Not least because the US designated those fighting the apartheid regime, as terrorists.
The scale of the Guptas’ rapaciousness meant that, within just a few years, the institutions they leeched were in a state of collapse.
Ramaphosa currently has no known rivals with widespread support within the African National Congress.
This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 to the July 2021 looting spree and violence.
The election results raise the real possibility that the ANC could be looking at another defeat in the 2024 general elections.
A secret plan to destabilise the new democratic government reveals the failed ambitions of the apartheid state security apparatus and confirms what is known about the brutality of the period.
South Africa’s political parties would do well to learn from Ireland, where the three largest political parties negotiated a coalition treaty that stipulated mechanisms for conflict resolution.
Leon mulls over the Democratic Alliance’s biggest challenge: ‘how to maintain its majority support among minorities, and increase its meagre voter share among the black majority’.
Jackson Mthembu’s death drives home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The trouble is that the ANC’s branch structure, designed initially as a means of grassroots democracy at work, is in a mess.
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