Inside MK’s success
Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party remains the great unknown in South African politics. Questions persist over whether it is merely a personality cult, what it really…
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In June, an estimated 350-million Europeans got the chance to participate in what would generally have been written off as one of the more…
Legal hurdles pile up as ANC pushes NHI pipedream
The odds of National Health Insurance (NHI) being implemented – at least in any form resembling the miracle salve sold to the population by…
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If you’d listened to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s opening of parliament address in Cape Town’s City Hall on July 18 and thought you’d heard it…
Hey GNU! South Africa is ready to grow. Don’t stuff it up
The exhilarating early days of a new relationship are not only being experienced by the government of national unity (GNU); the positive afterglow is…
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