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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Everything the ANC has touched has turned to ruin
The upcoming local government elections have brought the countrywide dysfunction into stark relief, writes Judith February.
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DAVID MAIMELA: The DA, populism and the return of its poster child
The DA's recent problems with its Phoenix posters, the wreck on the Gareth Cliff show and Helen Zille's return shows that racist and populist conservative politics work for the party, writes David Maimela.
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KENNETH MOKGATLHE: ANC in North West set to face tough battle at the polls
One does not need to be a rocket scientist to note that the ANC is going into this poll limping, and they are definitely going to lose a few council seats, writes Kenneth Mokgatlhe.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: 3 albums zoomers must listen to before they become T-shirts
The Gen-Zs seem to be inspired by the 1990s and early 2000s. But are they prepared to face the inspiration behind millenials' fashion back then?
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YONELA DIKO: The DA’s Phoenix poster saga was inevitable, and it'll happen again
When a party communicates with people only through billboards and TV adverts, it never truly knows just how huge the gap is between their posters and reality, writes Yonela Diko.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Social partnerships are integral for employment stimulus
In his weekly newsletter, the president said more than half a million South Africans had already benefitted from the first phase of Presidential Employment Stimulus, with several programmes still under way.
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ALEX LENFERNA: President Ramaphosa's vital climate test: firing Gwede Mantashe
President Ramaphosa’s promises on climate change are rendered empty by his continued support of Minister Mantashe and his polluting coal, oil and gas agenda, writes Alex Lenferna.
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LINDA MTHENJANE: Can understanding racial identity help us thrive?
In South Africa race as a categorisation has played a significant role in determining one’s status, one’s educational opportunities, one’s ability to earn an income and the perceived weight of one’s opinion, writes Linda Mthenjane.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: October, the hamster wheel of human existence
Haji Mohamed Dawjee writes that the tenth month of the year has been insufferable for as long as she can remember.
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PLAY FAIR: An open letter from GOOD’s Peter de Villiers to the DA’s Helen Zille
Former Springbok coach and GOOD mayoral candidate Peter de Villiers says DA federal council chairperson Helen Zille is not playing by the rules required in a democracy.
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KENNETH MOKGATLHE: This is why local government elections are so important
Kenneth Mokgatlhe writes that local government is the intimate sphere or aspect of government closest to the people. It is where residents are supposed to have a direct political relationship with the government, but that has not been happening.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: The choice of SA’s new Chief Justice is a high-stakes game
The administration of justice depends on the credibility of those who adjudicate, writes Judith February.
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MPHO A NDABA: Why SA is not prepared for the proposed analogue switch off date
Switching off analogue terrestrial television signals will fundamentally infringe on the right to access and receive information for the majority of South Africans, writes Mpho Ndaba.
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YONELA DIKO: The ANC will rise again after 2016 local election losses
The ANC is poised for a comeback after a wrenching outcome in 2016 for the party's members and its leaders, who had grown lazy and fat and forgot the battle they still needed to wage on behalf of the people, writes Yonela Diko.
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ANALYSIS: Squid Game: South Korea’s real debt crisis that inspired the TV series
Squid Game’s characters, their troubles and their humanity are resonating with the experiences of societies globally.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: SA must seize opportunities in move to green economy
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that South Africa is endowed with abundant resources that can be harnessed to open up new frontiers of investment and growth and build a new economy with the move to a green economy.
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OPINION: Democratic degeneration
South Africa’s once grand hopes have collapsed into pettiness, cynicism and a lack of emancipatory vision. Renewal can only come from a democratic reconfiguration of the popular.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Election campaigns: South Africa needs more 'politricks'
Nothing stirs the ever-boiling pot of humour in the bottom of our bellies more than the politics of this country, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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ANALYSIS: President Ramaphosa needs to show more urgency in stopping rogue spies
The judge responsible for authorising the covert monitoring of communications has found that claims by journalists that they were being spied on were credible.
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ANALYSIS: A few clues as to what may have caused the massive Facebook outage
Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global outage it had ever recorded - with 10.6 million reports from around the world.
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MCEBO DLAMINI: Why SA should value the tradition of the monarch
To believe in tradition or to find value in what tradition is does not mean to be stuck in the past, writes Mcebo Dlamini.
