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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.” – Martin Luther King, 1963 The election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States is indeed […]

The Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA) has set down the NPA’s appeal against the decision of Judge Chris Nicholson, in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, which led to the charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma being withdrawn, for hearing on November 28 2008. The parties have to file their heads of argument prior to November 25. […]

… check out Tom Shone, a British writer living in New York who has apparently been knocking on American doors and encouraging them to vote for Barack Obama. This is no ordinary political blog, though. With amusing quotes from David Sedaris (the darkly comic novelist), predictions on how, what you order on a pizza, determines […]

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 […]

Submitted by Patric Tariq Mellet All political parties, including the ANC and the new splinter party, will be challenged by the electorate to quit howling abuse at each other and to provide a clear set of policies and action plans to which they will commit. People do not want the same old story that they […]

The best gift the ANC has offered to dissidents that it now calls its “prodigal sons” is the right of political choice and freedom of association. After all, it is a voluntary organisation. It is for this reason that, so far, the ruling ANC has acted decisively and strongly to successfully halt its members from […]

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 […]

I don’t want to hear tomorrow that America has its first black president. It’s not about Barack Obama being black. It’s about him being right. The only thing that has bothered me since we welcomed political change and proper democracy to our sunny shores in 1994 is that government in this country having been worrying […]

Section 88(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa confirms that no person may hold office as president for more than two terms. The section is, however, capable of being amended by a two-thirds majority and is not cast in stone. In order to achieve what would surely be one of the longest […]

While Terror Lekota and the dissidents (there’s the name for a rock group right there) kick off their national convention in Sandton, the ANC continues to refer to them unapologetically as dogs and a bunch of poisonous snakes; seemingly upgraded from the dead snake of a few weeks ago. Indeed there can no longer be […]

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 […]