History Matters

The ANC is on the horns of a dilemma – and its name is Julius Malema. Just how to deal with the firebrand ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader is now expected to occupy the ANC’s National Executive Committee when it meets this weekend. With his militant style and wild rhetoric, Malema is understood to be [...]

  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 [...]

Atlanta Stadium, Witbank (Emalahleni), 26 October 2008 Comrades, compatriots, defenders of the revolution, young lions Today we mark 64 fighting years of our gallant youth movement which has distinguished itself as a trendsetter and a political home to South Africa’s youth. Throughout its history, it has led from the front and produced many leaders of [...]

Max du Preez IOL October 23 2008 Amid all the confusion, perplexities and mixed messages coming from the political arena in recent times, one thing is crystal clear: we South Africans should drastically lower our expectations of our political leaders. It started with Thabo Mbeki, the once charming, warm-hearted diplomat and inspiring leader who became [...]

I’m not Julius Malema’s biggest fan, personally I find him rather far removed from the youth that he claims to speak on behalf of. However I think it is in poor tast for IOL to have published Malema’s matric marks – regardless of how stupid people think he is (because of his raging fascist  remarks [...]

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 [...]

Julius Malema’s speech at the 64th birthday event of the ANCYL is worth listening to because it’s the latest stage in a new game that South Africans are playing called ‘How much more can we handle?’. The default object of the game is to see how long you can hold up your vision and hope [...]

Thought leader blogger Christi van der Westhuizen slams Zapiro for using rape as a metaphor and thinks that Zapiro and the Sunday Times owe South Africans an apology. BizLinks wonders what all the furore is about and provides some good links for more information about Zapiro, cartoons and the current issues around the Jacob Zuma [...]

Thomas Alberts – The implication that the fate of Zimbabwe is tied to the peculiarities of its ruler’s personality is hardly novel nor unique to Zimbabwe, though the word ‘fate’ might not carry the same weight in democracies as it does in dictatorships. But even in democracies, the politics of saving face is underestimated …