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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansThis year’s celebration of Africa Day provides another opportunity to assess how far continental integration has progressed. Integration would mean a truly united Africa – either a federalist “United States of Africa” or the African Union (AU) exercising binding powers over member states. At present the AU merely serves as a platfo...
Land reform in South Africa is an emotive and politically fraught subject. That’s because land was at the heart of the dispossession of Africans by colonial settlers. Successful land reform can help overcome this legacy, making it central to forging shared national bonds. It can also serve as a basis for a cohesive society through a pr...
Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, one of the saner voices in the ruling African National Congress (ANC), has recently given voice to heresy. He has said that the time of the ANC in power is coming to an end. The party that has dominated South African politics since 1994, winning five successive general elections, is con...
Emmanuel Macron’s decisive victory over Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April 2022 is no surprise. For more than a year, opinion polls had been predicting it. As early as April 2021, the leading polling institutes (Elabe, Harris interactive, Ifop, Ipsos) estimated the final score of the outgoin...
Trade Union movement, COSATU will convene its three-day central executive committee meeting from Monday to Wednesday to discuss organisational, political and socio-economic issues affecting workers. A media press conference will be held on Thursday to communicate the outcome of the meeting.
The four reports of the Zondo Commission are now finally in the public domain. Officially known as The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector, Including Organs of State...
The country’s citizens have again had their collective tolerance and quotient for despair and torment severely tested in a short space of time. The tragic aftermath of death and destruction caused by the devastating floods in the eThekwe...
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