In the Eastern Cape we have an urgent task to lead the unity and renewal of the ANC and tackle two features that are corroding our movement — corruption and disunity
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A new political order shakes the old laager in local government elections
The evident and glaring story about this local government election is that South Africans are no longer afraid to move on, with or without the ruling party.
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What does the ANC have to say about the Western Cape breaking away from South Africa?
The Democratic Alliance has begun preparations for a provincial referendum
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Lessons from Nklandla for Cape Independence
A minority ANC government in the Western Cape and an ideologically compromised court system should think long and hard before it demonstrates that mob rule has replaced the constitutional order
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Part one: A country with no children
The generation of 1976, which shook the word with its grassroots education and mobilisation, has grown up. This generation’s mass movements can learn from its elders
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No more excuses for land inertia
In the second of a three-part series on South Africa’s land question, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi says the constitution is clear: land seized under colonial states must be returned. But there is only policy confusion and elite possession
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Why ANC leaders ‘love’ the ANC
The truth is that ANC leaders don’t “love” the ANC itself but do love what their membership of the party did to their lives after 1994 as a result of the jobs in the government or private sector they occupied and benefited so much from
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Who has the right to memorialise Charlotte Maxeke?
To separate Maxeke from inconvenient narratives is to shortchange her story; participating wholly in the time-old tradition of making women scatter cushions in rooms where decisions are made
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Today’s ANC is a criminal enterprise masquerading as moral and political “leaders of society”
The criminal prosecution and lawful dissolution of the ANC are not only morally desirable but legally justifiable too
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New ANC Youth League task team offers SA’s youths a glimmer of hope
While there is doubt whether the ANC Youth League can return to its former glory, there’s no doubt there is great need for a champion of youth issues
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Charlotte Maxeke: A woman of firsts
In 1902 she fought for emancipation, including that of women, and was the first black South African to graduate with a BSc
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Young activists: a thin chapter in the history curriculum
Some of the most brutal years of the anti-apartheid struggle, fought by women and children, are given a scant 20 minutes in the classroom