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Why ANC leaders ‘love’ the ANC

Ebrahim Harvey 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

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How to survive dinner party small talk

Lizette Louw by Lizette Louw 10 February 2015

If you or anyone close to you has ever made the big move of relocating between the Cape and Gauteng you are probably aware of the stereotypes around their divergent social cultures. Residents of the northern twin cities, after moving south, often describe the social scene in their new home town as clique, and the […]

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ANC stance on DA school closures hypocritical

Isaac Mangena by Isaac Mangena 16 July 201219 July 2012

In 2007, Angie Motshekga, the then Gauteng MEC for education embarked on an unpopular operation — to close what she called “non-performing schools” in the province. The move angered learners, parents, teachers, unions and even some people in the ANC. Motshekga reasoned that the schools facing closure come January 2008, were schools that were badly […]

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