The August 8 vote of no confidence in Jacob Zuma was not a routine popularity exercise. It was part of an ongoing series of protests against Zuma countrywide. In dismissing the outcome of that vote, as simply part of the democratic process which...
History has a habit of repeating itself. The names and dates change but themes are recurrent. Natal in South African history has often tended to be out of step with the rest of the country. This is again apparent with the controversy surrounding...
As the slide in levels of efficacy and competence got underway, Tony Leon once observed that “standards will be lowered to you.” But now that the KZN ANCYL wants standards scrapped (Daily News, June 29), Leon’s prediction has...
Given the poor state of the economy, the ANC’s determination to foist National Health Insurance on the country (Mercury, June 26) will be for the economy what the iceberg was for the Titanic. Even if the public health system was working...
KZN ANC Commissar Sihle Zikalala’s diagnosis at the recent ANC provincial council meeting that the country is facing “economic warfare” from “western monopoly capitalism” is vintage communist fulmination which echoes...
Raymond Suttner’s experiences as an opponent of the apartheid government are significant for a variety of reasons. The re-issue of his book (Mercury, June 14) is a worthy contribution to the history of South Africa prior to 1994. His pain...
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