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Posted inNews/Politics

We must save the soul of the ANC

by Thabang Maseko 10 December 202110 December 2021

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

Posted inNews/Politics

A new political order shakes the old laager in local government elections

by Gugu Ndima 12 November 202118 November 2021

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.

Posted inNews/Politics

What does the ANC have to say about the Western Cape breaking away from South Africa?

by Phil Craig 4 September 20215 October 2021

The Democratic Alliance has begun preparations for a provincial referendum

Posted inNews/Politics

Lessons from Nklandla for Cape Independence

by Phil Craig 7 July 20217 July 2021

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

Posted inNews/Politics

Part one: A country with no children

by Catherine Sofianos 26 June 202125 June 2021

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

Posted inEquality

No more excuses for land inertia

by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi 21 June 202122 June 2021

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

Posted inNews/Politics

Why ANC leaders ‘love’ the ANC

by Ebrahim Harvey 20 June 202118 June 2021

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

Posted inGeneral

Who has the right to memorialise Charlotte Maxeke?

by Sarah Mokwebo 12 June 202111 June 2021

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

Posted inNews/Politics

Today’s ANC is a criminal enterprise masquerading as moral and political “leaders of society”

by Tebogo Khaas 29 May 202130 May 2021

The criminal prosecution and lawful dissolution of the ANC are not only morally desirable but legally justifiable too

Posted inNews/Politics

New ANC Youth League task team offers SA’s youths a glimmer of hope

by Zama Mthunzi 15 April 202115 April 2021

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

Posted inEquality, General

Charlotte Maxeke: A woman of firsts

by Zubeida Jaffer 6 April 20216 April 2021

In 1902 she fought for emancipation, including that of women, and was the first black South African to graduate with a BSc

Posted inEquality

Young activists: a thin chapter in the history curriculum

by Catherine Sofianos and Leah Nasson 8 March 202112 March 2021

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

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