News/Politics

By Suren Pillay Growing up in the Cape, we were taught that we were “Western”. How do we explain and undo this colonial sensibility? From my location at a university, there are two realisations from which to proceed. Firstly, the history of knowledge production, and the history of the organisation of knowledge — the ways […]

By Mike Mathabela A day before the recent local government elections, a racial incident occurred that almost derailed my resolve to, for the first time, vote for the DA. I was almost run down by a burly white male who proceeded to hurl demeaning expletives including the K-word at me after I had run to […]

The ANC Youth League often refers to the Freedom Charter when citing a basis upon which it relies for introducing nationalisation and land expropriation. Bloomberg.com quotes ANC Youth League president Julius Malema as saying that “the call of nationalisation is what is required by the Freedom Charter”. He said this in an interview on Johannesburg-based […]

By Hannine Drake Sanef called it bribery. The DA called it a gross abuse of power. Zapiro called it a metaphor (sort of). The already beleaguered media received yet another blow recently when Cabinet in true Machiavellian fashion approved the centralisation of the spending of its estimated R1 billion yearly advertising budget under the Government Communication […]

By Andy Carolin I don’t like Julius Malema. Or, more correctly, perhaps, I do not like the Malema to which the mass media has introduced me. But that is really beside the point. The ANCYL, under his current stewardship, is undoubtedly one of the most militant political forces in recent South African politics. It is […]

The ANC Youth League elective congress challenged the leadership of the ANC and the government through an attack on policies rather than personalities. Nowhere has this year’s 24th National Congress been utilised to criticise President Jacob Zuma or ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe but rather called for fundamental changes to the ruling party’s economic policies. Its […]

By George Karasaridis Last week’s political events in Greece could be described in two words, high drama, or if you prefer soap opera. Living in Greece today, it’s clear that our country is experiencing historic yet challenging times. Pressure is part of a modern lifestyle; if we could tap and package the stuff we could […]

By Nelly Shamase The left foot doesn’t know what the right foot is doing. How else can one explain the fact that a national department has no idea what its provincial counterpart is doing? Whose directive do provincial departments follow if their national bodies have no clue about a pilot project that was meant to […]