After 140 days of the world’s longest COVID-19 lockdown South Africa’s rate of infections continues to climb exceeding that of countries that have much larger populations than South Africa. On 23 March 2020 when ?President Ramaphosa announced the lockdown in South Africa for 21 days from March 26 to April 16, 2020, to contain the spread of the coronavirus, he was hailed as a great leader and the vast majority of people enthusiastically supported the campaign.

The dust has started to settle on the 2019 general and provincial elections with only the EFF and to some extent the I FF+ and the FF+ being happy with the results. The record low percentage poll of only 65.9% of registered voters down from 73.5% in 2014 was a clear...

There has been much levity throughout the world about Volodymyr Zelensky, a professional comedian, being elected president of Ukraine last week. After having a clown, and not very good one at that, as our president for nine years, I sincerely hope that every South...

When one looks at the role out of the ANC election campaign and the damming revelations that are published with monotonous regularity and with the 2019 general election only five weeks away one can be excused for wondering where is the New Dawn that we were promised...

A wave of Cyril mania engulfed the country during the second half of January 2018 when it appeared that ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa (CR) was taking control of the ANC. He started to implement plans to create a more favourable image about South Africa by...

Millions of South Africans heaved a massive sigh of relief just after 19:00 on Monday evening, 18 December 2017, when it was announced that Cyril Ramaphosa had been elected as the new president of the ANC with a narrow majority of 189 votes. As expected Ramaphosa’s...

In a day or two the 5000 odd delegates from all structures of the ANC will gather at Nasrec in Johannesburg for the party’s 54th elective congress it will a matter of do or die for Africa’s oldest liberation movement. The ANC goes to this congress in a state of...

In the light of recent developments it has become more important than ever before that South Africa needs to embark on a programme of radical economic transformation. South Africa cannot continue with these recent revelations that: * The revenue shortfall will hit...

Millions of voters are under the impression that come 2019 the ANC will lose the general election and an opposition coalition government will be formed. Unfortunately this is not a foregone conclusion. In a normal democracy but South Africa is not a normal democracy....