COLUMN: Lorenzo A. Davids writes that black, coloured and Asian voters are reminded that this election is their opportunity to reject their ongoing subjugation in ...
COLUMN: Lorenzo A. Davids writes that apitalism’s rewards fuel the system of political elitism, while the political system itself allows capitalism to distribute ...
COLUMN: Lorenzo A. Davids writes that in an opera of fatalistic speeches, the Democratic Alliance has cemented its role as the yapping dog of politics who has no ...
“South Africa’s seventh national election is a clash between the tribalised political cultures of progressives, conservatives and libertarians and the sacredness ...
‘In this pursuit of the coloured and black vote, it is convenient to misrepresent the voices of politicians like Fadiel Adams, Gayton MacKenzie, Nazier Paulsen and ...
‘The IFP post-Buthelezi is struggling. The ANC post-Zuma is struggling. The DA post-Zille is struggling. Because all of them waited too late in their party’s life ...
COLUMN: “One gets a sense that mainstream media houses are acting like MCs at a wedding instead of as journalists in a time that might become our greatest political ...
OPINION: Undecided voters and first-time voters are being presented as wild cards that could swing the election. The most obvious sign an increase in newly-registered ...
COLUMN: For those who study elections, it is fascinating to observe how Donald Trump and Caesar Augustus, Julius Caesar’s adopted successor, show similarities. Both ...
COLUMN: Stoking the election rhetoric with insults and sideswipes, both pretend that they can’t stand each other. But behind closed doors, the intensity of their ...
COLUMN: The point of democracy and its election of public representatives is to deliver to citizens a government that can be trusted with power and money, render ...
OPINION: Elections are not about voting for greater freedoms, but about voting not to be killed, booted out, having your house burnt down or your family killed or ...
OPINION: In the election season, being messianic is quite easy. Building any salvific message off the catastrophic failures of the ANC government is quite easy to ...
COLUMN: The President of South Africa was absent. He was not in the room. The man on the podium was reading a speech someone else had written for him.
COLUMN: South Africa has about 10 years left of “life as we now know it. ” If there is no credible and substantially sound plan to end gross, inhumane and lingering ...
OPINION: With election 2024 looming, it is obvious that every conversation about politics, people, problems or progress will be filtered through the election lens. ...
OPINON: Black forgiveness is very real. But it is wearing thin. Across media platforms, white voices drive this “30-year narrative” and black voices echo them.
OPINION: Political murals are also an indication of experienced oppression. They are often angry and heroic and drag messages from the margins into the centre.
COLUMN: The worst year of all awaits South Africa. Our 2024 may be the 2016 of the US. A fraudulent narcissist may end up as our president. Or an extremist like ...
COLUMN: South Africa is a messiah country on steroids. Almost every major moment in our history is written as a crisis caused by fascist catastrophes and the rise ...
COLUMN: In my November 13 column, under the title “When we hesitate to say the word ‘genocide’, we are complicit”, I dealt with an issue that tripped up three United ...
OPINION: The Wesley Neumann story is the story activists, priests and politicians have all silently abandoned.
COLUMN: Political parties will tell voters they are the alternative to an ailing ANC, who will in all probability crawl battered and bruised first over the finish ...
Modern war involves a close relationship between a government, its military and the defence industry. The military’s demand for weapons and technology drives the ...
Carpet-bombing. Collective responsibility. Genocide. These are the words of modern warfare.