Cyril Ramaphosa can give a great speech, that is for sure
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State captured .. officially
SA’s state of capture was clear before we had hundred of pages of carefully compiled evidence. Now what? More truth, same old lack or reconciliation?
A silver linings kind of a day
We are very good at Bad News. Fear, negativity, pessimism … we hold them all close. Strife, forbearance and survival are our toolkit. But [… insert
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Corruption? Van Riebeeck started it
Apartheid was surely the most corrupt of all systems … colonialism doesn’t even bear thinking about …
New paper, new party, new hope
A new newspaper, a new political party .. feels a little like 1994. Let the fightback begin!
Dear comrades, let’s be more comradely
Cyril Ramaphosa’s letter to his ‘comrades’ about the scourge of corruption gives us all a little more oxygen
We are not your naughty children
A respected businessman asks how this lot who so recently turned a blind eye to State Capture get to play the irritated parents now
South Africans should max out on tax benefits before they start a revolt
Max out your tax benefits to keep more of your rands from being captured
The normalisation of madness
A number of insights during a debate at the University of Cape Town – Betrayal of the Promise: Understanding South Africa’s Political Crisis – came from
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