POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 15 – 7 August 2015
POLITICS AFTER NKANDLA It has now become patently obvious that the ANC is not going to allow President Zuma to carry any culpability for the Nkandla saga. By the end of this week the ad hoc committee will have tabled their report absolving Zuma of having to pay for...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 14 – 30 July 2015
ESKOM - CRISES OR INCONVENIENCE? For the average citizen the regular load shedding is an inconvenience. When your electricity is cut for two hours during peak time while you are cooking dinner or watching the end of a rugby match and a crucial try is about to be...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 13 (Follow up) – 24 July 2015
What does Muthambi hope to learn from the Chinese Propaganda Machine? Some people may think that I was being unduly pessimistic about the future of media freedom in South Africa, please read what Gavin Davis MP DA Shadow Minister of Communications has to say...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH -Edition 13 – 23 July 2015
WOULD NELSON MANDELA BE HAPPY WITH SOUTH AFRICA TODAY? As expected on Saturday we saw millions of people, not only in South Africa but also all over the world, going out to perform various acts of kindness with a generosity of spirit and material gifts as their...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 12 – 14 July 2015
MANDELA DAY – MAKE IT MEANINGFUL On Saturday South Africa and the world will commemorate Mandela Day. The introduction of the day was a decision taken by the United Nations in November 2009 to declare 18 July, his birthday, "Nelson Mandela International Day" in...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 11- 9 July 2015
MPUMALANGA - DOES TOURISM HAVE A FUTURE? “The food basket, power house and playground of South Africa is how my good friend and colleague, the late Watty Watson, former Member of Parliament and chief whip of the DA in the National Assembly used to describe his home...
CLIVE HATCH MEETS MMUSI MAIMANE
Clive Hatch met the new leader if the Democratic Alliance in Middelburg during one of Maimane's tour to all the provinces in South Africa
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition10 – 30 June 2015
THE FREEDOM CHARTER A CAUSE TO CELEBRATE? On Friday South Africa commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the Freedom Charter which was adopted by 2844 delegates at a gathering named the Congress of the People in the veld at Kliptown, near Soweto in Johannesburg on 26...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 9 – 23 June 2015
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE Once again parliament descended into chaos this week. The government once again disregarded not only South African and International law but ignored a ruling of a full bench of the North Gauteng High Court. There was however, one glimmer of hope,...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 8 – 2 June 2015
MONEY GROWS ON TREES! Judging by recent revelations one would be justified into believing that the government is under the impression that money grows on trees? Let us look at some of these excesses. Of course the most notorious excess that we are aware of is the...
