Tebogo Khaas EFF turns 12: Can Malema's newfound maturity overcome his troubled past? 4 min 2 29 July 2025
Themba Dlamini Ballots and burnouts: Our fragile democracy lacks direction and is swerving off the road 5 min 0 18 July 2025
Bhekisisa Mncube Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: How the flighty have fallen as Shivambu slinks off for a duck 2 min 2 5 June 2025
Bhekisisa Mncube Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — Roll up! Roll up! It’s the great political party fire sale! 5 min 0 23 February 2025
Bhekisisa Mncube Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — we see you, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla 5 min 0 14 February 2025
Ismail Lagardien My search for Voltaire's eternal optimist Dr Pangloss is finally bearing fruit 3 min 0 15 January 2025
Omry Makgoale Does loyalty to the EFF party leader decide the fate of Dr Ndlozi? 4 min 5 29 December 2024
Ismail Lagardien Julius Malema and his Wild Bunch are shuffling deckchairs on the EFF Titanic 1 min 10 27 November 2024
Marius Oosthuizen As Zuma’s MK party rises, so will a tide of other regional ethno-nationalist uMkhontos 5 min 6 12 November 2024
Ismail Lagardien Strategically arranged facts tell us that totalitarianism is at bay — but be careful about what you choose to believe 5 min 8 9 October 2024
Judith February When the ethically bankrupt and morally corrupt team up, things will get smashed 6 min 2 25 August 2024
Ismail Lagardien A shattering ANC – the party’s disintegration started with Zuma and will be finished by Zuma 4 min 27 21 August 2024
Ashwin Desai The return to respectability of the honourable profession of bank robbing 5 min 21 24 July 2024
Ismail Lagardien Beware the smartest people in the room, they are often the dangerous ones 5 min 20 16 July 2024
Melanie Verwoerd Two contrasting media briefings provide a glimpse of future behaviour of MK party and EFF 4 min 1 9 June 2024
Ismail Lagardien Elections 2024 — as we sail between Scylla and Charybdis, it’s heads you win, tails I lose 6 min 8 8 May 2024
Ismail Lagardien The almost eerie similarities between the playbooks of Julius Malema and Donald Trump 6 min 8 25 October 2023
Ismail Lagardien Hollow praise-singing — the EFF’s celebration of China’s prosperity leaves out important contradictions 6 min 13 26 July 2023
Omry Makgoale The EFF’s 10-year milestone — a clear and present political danger to South Africa 5 min 6 25 July 2023
Ismail Lagardien Imagine revolutionaries in control of Africa’s only nuclear power plant 4 min 5 3 April 2022
Ismail Lagardien No EFFing clue: The ideologically constipated populist revolutionaries and reveries of Karl Marx have hit a dead end 2 min 12 9 November 2021
