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Zuma & the ‘Yugoslav card’
It was the “Yugoslav card” — the threat of territorial fragmentation — that enabled President Jacob Zuma to ensure that the ANC leadership would rally behind him. He made it clear that, unlike former president Thabo Mbeki, sacked by the ANC, he would not go quietly.
Reality & danger of SA student protests
April 2, 2016
With the insecurity and fear still being spread by the global economic crisis, all the resentment and tensions of recent decades is coming to the surface in South Africa and the recent campus upheavals are a good — and nihilistic — example.
Lessons to learn from SA state capture inquiries
March 29, 2016
South Africa can maintain with conviction that the country has "been there, done that" when it comes to manipulated commissions of inquiry into allegations of state capture. More than 50 years ago a massive scandal about the control the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) secret society exercised over government was successfully fudged.
Patronage: rotting social fabric from within
March 29, 2016
Skeletons seem to be rattling around in several ministerial closets in South Africa at the moment in what appears to be a case of political patronage gone severely toxic. But there is nothing new in patronage, in business, both legitimate and illegitimate buying — or trying to buy — the favours of politicians, judges, police […]
SA unions bid to ‘save the country’
March 18, 2016
Two names now epitomise the specific economic problems and political turmoil South Africa finds itself in: Zuma and Gupta. This was also underlined a week ago during the investment roadshow to Britain and the United States headed by finance minister Pravin Gordhan.
The real message of International Women’s Day
March 6, 2016
Tuesday, March 8, is International Women’s Day (IWD). It comes at a time of ongoing global economic crisis and when we, in South Africa, face further massive job losses, turmoil on the university campuses and in the labour movement. Perhaps, as never before, has the real message of the founders of IWD been more pertinent.
No joy for SA labour in 2016 Budget
February 28, 2016
South Africa's 2016 Budget has come and gone — and has done little or nothing to assuage the anger felt in many sections of the embattled trade union movement. If anything, it has given added impetus to a move by those unions set to convene a “workers’ summit” to seek new directions both for the labour movement and the country.
Terry Bell Writes 
April 7, 2016
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