Active citizenry must organise for change
South Africans currently appear to be rising up as active citizens with the primary aim of removing Jacob Zuma as the President of the…
Jacob Zuma
Press Statement: All South Africans must act now to make Democracy Work
All South Africans must act now to make Democracy Work and help build a Coalition for Constitutional Democracy Thursday night’s firing of Finance…
Policy Brief 14: Combating Corruption in South Africa
The myth that corruption has no victims is a dangerous fallacy. Corruption causes disastrously inefficient economic, social and political outcomes. This Policy Brief is an…
Africa’s First Lady
Barack and Michelle Obama have barely left the stage — it’s been a month — and already the U.S. press are gripped by nostalgia. …
SA SEEMS TO HAVE INHABITED ‘POST-TRUTH’.
‘Post-truth’ is the 2016 ‘word of the year’. No surprises there. In a world of Donald Trump, Brexit and the rise of the right,…
THE ANC PARALYSED BY ZUMA
President Zuma can rest easy as he jets off to attend Fidel Castro’s funeral. He has, after all, survived another attempt on his political…
Taking the lead in SA’s time of crisis
Our devastating leadership vacuum requires others to step into the breach. Paralysis in the ANC and the government over the scandals engulfing President Jacob…
Zuma goes on as a corrupt elite robs South Africa blind
A special judicial report into the “capture” of South Africa’s state institutions has found that President Jacob Zuma is at the very least associated with corruption, if…
State of capture & the cornered President
The President has been put on notice. South Africans are not ready or willing to give up on this democracy yet. They are in…
Gordhan steps into the breach for students
Even those who might normally want to criticise Gordhan for being conservative regarding expenditure or even “neoliberal” were hoping he would be able to…