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...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 7 – 12 May 2015
FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS Just when you think that nothing more ridiculous could happen in South Africa you can be sure the President Zuma or one of his Lackeys will come along and prove that there is no limit to what they can do. In recent weeks we...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 5 – 5 May 2015
THE BATON IS PASSED ON In the same way as an experienced, well trained and successful relay team passes on the baton during a relay race so too did Helen Zille pass on the baton of leadership to a new leader Mmusi Maimane. Unfortunately, I was unable to...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 6 – 20 May 2015
THE ESKOM FIASCO During the past week we have had a clear illustration of Eskom’s duplicity in dealing with the current electricity crisis in South Africa. Firstly we have the acting CEO of Eskom apologising to the residents of Soweto as follows "First and foremost,...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 4 – 28 April 2015
THE END OF AN ERA This week will mark the end of an important era of South African politics when Helen Zille hands over the reins of leadership to a new person at the Democratic Alliance Conference in Port Elizabeth on Saturday and Sunday. Helen was elected to lead...
POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 3 – 21 April 2015
THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF A RECKLESS REMARK Twenty one years ago millions of South Africans stood in queues for hours excited that they would be able to cast their votes in South Africa’s first democratic election and all these voters looked forward to the new...
POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 1 – 7 April 2015 –
MAMPARALANGA STRIKES AGAIN After an absence of almost eight years I have once again decided to publish an online newsletter of my political perceptions for those people who are interested in them. It is perhaps fitting if not ironic that the political shenanigans in...
POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES BY CLIVE HATCH – Edition 2 – 14 April 2015
HOW HAS SOUTH AFRICA BENEFITTED NOW THAT THE RHODES MEMORIAL HAS GONE? After a month of disruption and division in South Africa the memorial of Cecil John Rhodes was moved for safe keeping, but how has this helped South Africa,? We all know that every action does...
