History Matters

Angie Motshekga  the head of the womens league in her interview in the Sunday Times underlines the point that many have been making that some members of the ANC leadership are if not intellectual bankrupt but their views on the role of opposition parties in a democracy could be mistaken for that of a rantings [...]

How is it that the ANC – the same ANC which prides itself on discipline, the same ANC who fought for the right to protest freely – allows its supporters to run to ruin the name of the party? IOL reports on the recent disruptions at a rally organised in support of Lekota at Orange [...]

Comrade President what is becoming of the once proud ANC.? What is happening in the ANC in which you spent the best part of your life, in prison, exile and government? It seems that you are presiding over an army of politically illiterates. We have a leader and member of your NEC and head of the [...]

Comrade President Zuma I am not a disgruntled member of the ANC, just angry. I am angry because you sent Jessie and the other President to school but not Malema. I am angry that no one has as yet visited me or given me any answers to where I will find the real ANC, so [...]

In case you haven’t read it, here is Lekota’s open letter to the ANC detailing his grievances about the current political path that the party is pursuing. Jeff Radebe responds on behalf of the ANC Secretary General and the NEC. Open Letter to the ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe

The brutal ousting of South African President Thabo Mbeki by the 88-member national executive committee of the ruling African National Congress has unleashed political and economic turmoil, but it has also finally forced open the space to focus on how to bring fresh ideas, imagination and leadership to bear to renew a faltering democracy, mend [...]

The die has been cast and President Zuma has since Polokwane been presiding over a party that has  been experiencing a loss of credibility and direction. The centre is not holding and the Stalinist style purges of the Mbeki faction has led to the possibility of a sizeable group of people breaking away from the [...]

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ZACKIE ACHMAT: COMMENT – Published in the M&G Sep 27 2008 00:00 On September 20 2008, as South Africa’s newly acquired Gripen fighter jets took off from a local air show to parade across Cape Town skies, residents would awaken to one of the most remarkable days in the [...]