Pravin Gordhan was throughout his life driven by a deep commitment to non-racialism.
- Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
The climate crisis is a complex scientific problem. New systems have to be developed through democratic systemic reforms.
Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.
With the impasse between South African universities and students over free higher education a forum has been set up to look at possible reforms.
The leaderlessness of South Africa’s #FeesMustFall student movement has ultimately fed into divisions within the grouping.
The 2016 State of the Nation Address provides President Zuma with the ideal opportunity to be statesman-like. That would require bold action of his part, something that he is unlikely to do.
The #FeesMustFall and #ZumaMustFall campaigns come from the same place. The rage has its roots in opposition to Zuma’s surrender of national sovereignty through globalising South African capitalism.
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