PLANET ZUMA FIGHTS BACK Edition 43 – 3 December 2016
PLANET ZUMA FIGHTS BACK The despot from Planet Zuma, the planet that was revealed to the nation by DA leader Mmusi Maimane during the 2014 state of the nation debate, appears to have adopted a “Fight Back” campaign to prop up his ailing support. The original “Fight...
JACOB ZUMA CAUGHT – BUT IS HE OUT? Edition 41 – 9 November 2016
JACOB ZUMA CAUGHT – BUT IS HE OUT? In a normal functioning democracy there should have been an official statement from the Presidency on Wednesday night with a full and unconditional apology from the President and accompanied by an announcement of his resignation to...
CAN THE ANC SAVE ITSELF? Edition 40 – 19 September 2016
CAN THE ANC SAVE ITSELF? The repercussions of the 3 August 2016 local government elections are now starting to sink in and the once mighty ANC is at a loss as to how they must deal with these losses. The hard reality that the voters no longer “love” the ANC as the...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS – Edition 39 – 15 August 2016
BEYOND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION South African politics will never be the same following the final declaration of the 2016 Municipal Elections on Saturday 6 August. These results were certainly a vindication of the commitment of the 1.7% of the South Africans who...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 37 – 9 June 2016
THE ROLE OF THE SABC With the dawn of our new democracy in 1994 many South Africans, myself included, breathed a sigh of relief that we would not be treated to the Cliff and Pik (Cliff Saunders & Pik Botha) show on SABC every Sunday evening. This was because...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Editions 38 – 23 June 2016
South Africa Burns On Thursday 16 June in his address at the rally to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising President Jacob Zuma correctly made the point that “in 1976 not a single school was burnt”. He used this as the reason why schools,...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 36 – 27 May 2016
NE STEP FORWARD – TWO STEPS BACK On Monday 9 May South Africans heaved a collective sigh of relief because Moody’s had decided not to downgrade the South African sovereign credit rating to junk status. There was however a minor downgrade from Baa1 to Baa2. The outlook...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 35 – 10 May 2016
THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK Responding to the debate on his budget in the National Assembly on Thursday 5 May 2016 President Zuma said the legislature had become a national embarrassment and demanded the Speaker bring it to order He carried on by saying that as...
PROVE IT NOW SHAUN “I AM MY OWN MAN” ABRAHAMS!!
When he was appointed as head of the NPA Adv Shaun Abrahams stated that "he was his own man" and would prosecute anyone without fear or favour. His track record todate does not nspire confidence. Now he has the opportunity to prove it. Today a full bench of the...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 34 – 2 April 2016
QUO VADIS JACOB ZUMA AND THE ANC? The definitive ruling of the Constitutional Court on Thursday will surely go down as the most significant rulings made in the South African democracy, it has set in stone the principle that “no one is above the law” not even the...
