Sentletse Diakanyo

I have been most curious to find out how the Zuma government intend tackling the problem of unemployment, given its populist rhetoric and what we know to be empty promises to the poor. Jacob Zuma has come out to outline exactly how his government intends dealing with the scourge of unemployment. A problem we all […]

Much has been said and speculated about the motive for the September 2007 suspension of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli, by the former president Thabo Mbeki. Pikoli himself, the media and opposition parties have concluded that the suspension was primarily to defend the National Commissioner of Police, Jackie Selebi, from prosecution. Pikoli […]

Zackie Achmat, a loyal member of the ANC and a Zuma supporter, as well as leader of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has accused Thabo Mbeki of having “blood on his hands”, referring to deaths related to HIV/Aids. Achmat is emboldened in his reckless statements by an inconclusive study conducted by a group of professors from […]

Political “analysts” have been unanimous in their assessment of immediate challenges that president elect Barack Obama would have to contend with once sworn into office in January 2009. The most prominent and most obvious is the state of the economy of the United States (US). Obama inherits a dysfunctional economy which has plunged almost the […]

Addressing the Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) conference, secretary general of Cosatu made a very refreshing admission. He said “Only unscrupulous politicians hell-bent to use our divisions in order to use us against one another for their selfish political ends stand to benefit from our disunity.” For a long time the ANC and its […]

Barack Obama’s presidency of the United States ushers a new beginning for America; a new beginning for cordial relations with other nations. His is to dispense hope to millions of Americans whose confidence has been abruptly shattered and altered into despair; whose hopes for the American dream came crushing with pitiless haste, subjecting them to […]

South Africa has since 1994 been the paragon of democracy in Africa. We have remained the benchmark upon which many of our peers have been measured against. While South Africa remains the paragon of virtues of democracy in Africa, the ruling party that has been the architect of the emancipation of the oppressed and the […]

Thabo Mbeki has come out of temporary political obscurity with guns blazing! The letter he wrote to Jacob Zuma about the state of the party and chronic verbal diarrhoeas of its leadership is a further damaging indictment on the integrity of Zuma. Mbeki, in the best way he knows how, penetrated the defenceless soul of […]

The US presidential hopeful and senator from Arizona, John McCain, is a celebrated Vietnam war veteran and an experienced politician. His credentials under normal political and economic circumstances would favour him for occupation of the Oval Office at the White House, but the circumstances do not favour him nor is his presidential campaign doing much […]

When Jacob Zuma and his sidekicks departed for the United States (US) a week ago, we were told that the purpose of the visit was to further strengthen relations between South Africa and the US, and to discuss areas of further cooperation. What utter bollocks! Strengthening what relations? The ANC has no diplomatic relations with […]

As the global economy stands on the edge of a financial precipice, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) armed with a paltry $200 billion rescue package attempts to intervene and prevent emerging economies from collapsing under the stressful weight of the financial turmoil. Some emerging economies are already experiencing liquidity problems and look toward the IMF […]