Policy debate to hot up in next few years

In whose lifetime will the nationalisation of mines happen? The fact that you are an avid reader of this column suggests that Father Time will harvest you long before the African national Congress (ANC) Youth League turns its threats of...

SA must take meaningful steps in what remains of its long walk to freedom

In an ironic twist of history, De Klerk looked back on what South Africa had achieved since 1994 and argued that there were more assets than liabilities in the balance sheet of postapartheid South Africa. On the other hand, Winnie...

Zuma coalition fracturing

Last year ended with a lovers’ tiff. African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema threatened war, fire and brimstone after he and a delegation of ruling party luminariess were booed and heckled by delegates at a South...

Business and political leaders must walk the Madiba talk

A few years ago, I watched a documentary in which former President Nelson Mandela regaled the television audience with stories of his life in the African National Congress and in prison. Towards the end, he said something I found terribly...

Zuma’s contradictory coalition

In the months leading up to the 2007 Polokwane conference of the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) expressed some disquiet about the orientation of the...

Politics and money: a circular relationship

In South Africa, October is a red month. It is a month during which the South African Communist Party (SACP) engages in different campaigns as part of what it calls Red October. This year, the two main campaigns revolve around corruption and the...