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Pravin Gordhan became factional in the ANC
The monologue in a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare and the poem, which was recited by Jaques entitled "As you like it" painted a broader picture about life when they stated that "All the world'...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 13:30hrs | 319 | by Bheki Mngomezulu
ANC of Ramaphosa: Obliterating, political cleansing of left leaning socialists
South Africa is witnessing a significant shift in its political landscape after the African National Congress (ANC), under President Cyril Ramaphosa, lost its majority in Parliament. This development ...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 07:18hrs | 232 | by Marshall Ndlela
'Don't kill Chris Hani, again'
There's some ray of hope from Gauteng Premier Cde Panyaza Lesufi's cryptic message: "Don't kill Chris Hani Again." The White Monopoly Capital behind the Codesa negotiations to 'end apartheid' ...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 13:04hrs | 9 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Challenging situation ahead for SA
THE latest from South Africa is that Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected president by the country's seventh Parliament.His election follows an agreement between the African National Congress (ANC...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 09:24hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Busisiwe Mkhwebane merely annoyed agents of white monopoly capital
In my view, both Tina Joemat-Pettersson (may her soul repose peacefully) and Busisiwe Mkhwebane are victims of a system that lives off the subjugation of women, where women are treated very differentl...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 17:18hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Sisulu tko Ronald Lamola in an open letter
I ask you, why are some so irritated with my opinion piece? Until all daggers, some agonizingly blunt, are drawn, and some have already assumed my head must go to the guillotine in the narrowness of m...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 17:52hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu.
What Zimbabwean leaders can learn from FW de Klerk's legacy
WHEN the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe met the last apartheid South African leader Frederik Willem de Klerk, who died of cancer-related complications at 85 this week, in Gaborone, Bot...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'South Africa needs a total judicial and system overhaul and transformation'
It's not just the Zulus, it's the generality of the South African masses that are living pathetic lives in desperation, poverty, hunger, joblessness and in a continuous state of debt with no hope for ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Chamisa warns of dark cloud over Zimbabwe
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa called for a transitional government on Sunday, saying President Emmerson Mnangagwa had "legality" but lacked "legitimacy".Chamisa told thousands of cheering supporte...Published: 20 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe urged to improve dialogue process
RENOWNED human rights lawyer from Sudan, Yasmin Sooka has challenged Zimbabwe to take a cue from other African countries that have successfully managed to handle their political crisis through an effe...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hate and self determination
As the third window for national dialogue in Zimbabwe slowly closes due to the number of unmet preconditions and ideal settings for the proposed dialogue, I am reminded of my past works written five y...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 15:08hrs | | by Terence Simbi
I am beginning to love Nelson Chamisa!
Because he doesn't get it! Across Africa, Eurasia, and South America, governments are characterized by strong executives and weak legislatures. the primary focus of politics is on elections an...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 16:50hrs | | by Sam Wezhira
Nelson Chamisa: Your parents taught you better
The so-called experts fail to understand that it is the unshackled youths that can bring change in any country, not the rah-rah lying politicians. In addition, for street protests to work, they must b...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 22:27hrs | 6 | by Sam Wezhira
Mandela vs Mugabe: A legacy of ashes
Ever get that feeling that all the lifelong plans you have ever had will burn into red-hot disappointment one day? If you live in Johannesburg for long enough, you will hear stories about men and wome...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:10hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Mandela mocked Mugabe and Mugabe also mocked Mandela
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's verbal barbs on Nelson Mandela have a historical context, which both men helped accentuate.South Africa's first majority and black President Nelson Mandela...Published: 16 Sep 2017 at 12:05hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Codesa was a betrayal of South Africa's black struggle
Former constitutional judge Albie Sachs had to shield the Constitution against sharp criticism from students dismissing it as a "betrayal".On Tuesday night Sachs delivered the Oliver Tambo cen...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 14:52hrs | | by City Press
SA's rich and poor must negotiate trade-offs or risk Zimbabwe moment
The very rich and the very poor needed to urgently come together to negotiate trade-offs at an economic and land Codesa, or the country is at risk of ruin, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba ha...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 13:40hrs | | by City Press
Beneficiaries of Codesa linked BEE transactions feeling the heat
President Jacob Zuma's plan to take white capital monopoly head-on is starting to bear fruits and more casualties line up for trauma treatment.Although Zuma appears as a victim but the truth i...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 08:18hrs | 1 | by Social media
Let us ease Mugabe out of power
The Editor,I am sure that people who have older parents that required to move to an assisted living facility are familiar with Mugabe's denials, refusals, and resistance to step down as a Pres...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 22:00hrs | | by Wezhira Sam
Hell beckons for Mujuru allies
IT was Aristotle the ancient Greek philosopher who said, "politicians have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness".T...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 11:54hrs | | by Herbert Moyo
Zanu-PF: Clearing the crowded deck
Before I get into matters of the week, my humble acknowledgement to one of my alert readers. Two weeks ago I mistakenly suggested that the late Zanu-Ndonga leader, Ndabaningi Sithole, sought and got t...Published: 25 Aug 2012 at 07:54hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai: A Self Serving Machine
Everyone agrees that one of the next President of Zimbabwe's urgent tasks will be to address the infrastructure. Some of Zimbabwe's infrastructure is worse than the Stone Age period. Some people have ...Published: 31 Jul 2012 at 16:26hrs | | by Denford
Zimbabwe draft constitution's scandalous compromise
Finally the debate on the proposed constitution can now begin in earnest given that at long last the GPA negotiators - styling themselves as the "Management Committee" - have produced a final draft wh...Published: 22 Jul 2012 at 08:50hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
The giant erect penis that split the rainbow nation
As I write, South Africa is boiling with anger, divisive anger. Never in the history of mankind has a society debated so heatedly, has a society been divided so sharply over a matter so private, a mat...Published: 02 Jun 2012 at 19:01hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
We are spending unacceptable amount of money on government trips - Biti
On the day he delivered a post 2012 budget statement, Finance Minister Tendai Biti was Lance Guma's guest on Question Time, answering questions from SW Radio Africa listeners. The MDC-T Secretary Gen...Published: 21 Mar 2012 at 21:17hrs | 1 | by Lance Guma
South Africa may face Matopo Hills moment
Late 19th-century Cape Times correspondent Vere Stent, in his account of Cecil John Rhodes's successful attempt to put an end to the 1896 Ndebele revolt in present-day Zimbabwe, relates an encounter ...Published: 11 Jul 2011 at 05:06hrs | | by iol
South Africa Xenophobic attacks: Lack of leadership
Not so many years ago, South Africa was under apartheid and the liberation struggle fighters were accommodated by fellow African countries such as Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Lesotho, Nigeria, Angola...Published: 14 Jun 2011 at 19:29hrs | | by Tebogo Mogosoana
Truth about Zimbabwe, Sadc Troika Summit: George Charamba
FROM its inception in 1980 as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (Sadcc), Southern African Development Community (Sadc) was and has always operated as a consultative and co...Published: 06 Apr 2011 at 04:25hrs | | by George Charamba
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