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 [...]

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 [...]

By Norman Levy Published 9th December in the Cape Times The idea of the Freedom Charter and the Congress of the People (COP), from which it emanated, had so much potential that it was already seen as of historic importance before either the COP took place or the Freedom Charter was written. The South African [...]

By Allister Sparks. IT IS a measure of SA’s isolationist mentality that we are preparing for the most important general election of our democratic era against a backdrop of the worst global economic crisis in nearly 100 years, yet that forbidding factor is hardly featuring in our political debate. Jacob Zuma, who is presumably going [...]

ANC PRESS RELEASE ANC urges public debate on a Roadmap for Education 16 November 2008 Since April 2007, the ANC Health and Education Committee has been involved in a major policy review of education, implementing the resolutions of the ANC’s 52nd National Conference, held in December 2007. The conference declared education and health major priorities [...]

Moshoeshoe Monare, Deputy Group Political Editor, Independent News and Media, has written a very apt article (‘Are they putting the country first’, 18 November 2008) about next year’s elections that highlights some of the critical policy issues that are being overlooked on the campaign trail. He writes that, Political parties appear to have been caught [...]

  The ANC and all informed opinion makers are looking carefully at the split in the ANC and how this will effect the economy of the country which, like the rest of the globe, is facing an economic downturn and severe crisis. The ANC, it seems, is unable to manage the hemorrhaging of a sizeable number of its [...]

Address by the ANC President Jacob Zuma at the funeral service of Billy Nair Durban Exhibition Centre, 30 October 2008 The family and friends of Comrade Billy Nair, The President of the Republic, Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Province, Sbu Ndebele, Members of the ANC National Executive Committee, Chairperson of the ANC in the [...]

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 JEREMY CRONIN: Oct 27 2008 The now-popular idea of a developmental state represents an emerging consensus that we need an active state with the capacity to intervene in the economy to coordinate and drive transformation. Implicit in this consensus is that strategic state-owned enterprises are important. Also implicit is [...]