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Pan-African Parliament elects Fortune Charumbira as president

Peter Fabricius
01 Jul

Pros and cons of allowing voters to choose South Africa’s next president

Pierre de Vos
21 Jun

The evolution of State Capture and the parallels with Sicily under Mafia boss Don Bernardo Provenzano

Thozamile Botha
20 Jun

Hail to the thief, fail to the chief — rot sets into SA presidential security service

Victoria O’Regan
09 Jun

Inaction no longer an option – Fraser-Ramaphosa conflict marks new aggressive phase of ANC’s Forever War

Stephen Grootes
08 Jun

Disgruntled ANC Mangaung group takes on interim provincial committee, but denies claims of influence by Ace Magashule

Queenin Masuabi
19 May

The Dream Deferred (updated) – Thabo Mbeki, post-presidency

Mark Gevisser
15 May

As the Zondo Commission reports show, it may be time to curb the President’s powers

Alexandra Willis
05 May

Governance by launches, site visits and speeches not enough when details and corruption-free implementation are MIA

Marianne Merten
29 Apr

Ramaphosa to rehash ANC’s 2002 Letsema social compact campaign to mobilise communities

Greg Nicolson
21 Apr

Director-General Dondo Mogajane to join the exodus from National Treasury

Ray Mahlaka
07 Apr

Why vaping lobbyists’ claim that sin tax on vapes is as bad as Aids denialism, is just wrong

Joan van Dyk for the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism
21 Mar

Previous experience required — every South African president and deputy president should also be a Cabinet minister

Bhaso Ndzendze
17 Mar

ANC ‘renewal’ will remain an empty slogan until the organisation breaks its current leadership cycle

Raymond Suttner
16 Mar

Another second-term endorsement for Ramaphosa while Mpumalanga ANC battles to go to conference

Carien du Plessis
07 Mar

Thabo Mbeki: Reinvented, but not forgotten

Stephen Grootes
28 Feb

In SA politics, does growing the party membership help in the long term? Not really

Stephen Grootes
21 Feb

Whither cadre deployment in South Africa?

Alexandra Willis
20 Feb

Sona yet so far: In my great dream, Cyril spoke about the real state of the nation

Shaun de Waal
17 Feb

Zondo report illustrates SA’s eternal existential battle of Right vs Might

Stephen Grootes
02 Feb

2022: Lindiwe Sisulu’s year of campaigning dangerously

Stephen Grootes
23 Jan