History Matters

What to make of the war of words that has erupted between Jonathan Jansen and Jessie Duarte? Briefly, ANC spokesperson Duarte is demanding that recently installed University of the Free State Rector Jonathan Jansen apologise for calling Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga a “lazy and incompetent minister, if one takes into account her record as [...]

Blade Nzimande, General Secretary of the SACP Defend and deepen the April 22 electoral victory: The tasks of the SACP and the working class after the elections The overwhelming victory of the ANC in the April 2009 fourth democratic elections is the clearest statement by the workers and the poor of our country of their [...]

A friend sent me an sms as she was going into the voting booth on April 22nd. “Going to hold my nose and vote”, she said. She was voting for COPE nationally and ID provincially only because she was sure they would not be in government. She detested many of the personalities in Cope, disagreed [...]

Download the PAC’s policy document here: PAC Policy Documents (July 2002)

With everyone obsessed with Obama mania no one is actually considering how educated US citizens were when they went to the polls. Of course the campaign trail was most exciting and informative but also people got off their own complain trail and ACTUALLY attended events or spoke to people who did. And what of us [...]

The Independent Democrats have published their policy documents as resolved in July 2008. Click here to read a summary of the ID’s policies. Click here to read all of the policies that were adopted in July 2008 at the ID’s national conference.

Many of the ANC’s election policies were decided and resolved upon at Polokwane. To view all the resolutions made, click here. The ANC is also however welcoming and encouraging public participation in creating their election manifesto, click here for more information.

The DA has a comprehensive list of its policies uploaded on its site in pdf form. There are policy documents for many issues, here are links to a few of them are relevant election issues for many people: Poverty Education Housing Public Services To view the complete list of all the Democratic Alliance’s policy documents, [...]