OPINION: Helen Zille and her fellow travellers are victims of their propaganda. They undermine and underestimate the MKP at their own peril. With ANC on an irreversible decline, MKP has become a key player in black politics, writes Prof. Sipho Seepe.
The notion that the performance of the so-called GNU can be assessed in 100 days is misplaced and mischievous; '100 days’ mark has no basis in law or our Constitution, and is an arbitrary milestone, the writer says.
Not shy about its ambition, the DA argued that “it is the only party big enough and with the institutional capacity to rescue South Africa and get our country working again. ”
The decision by the Middelburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Mpumalanga to strike off the roll R2. 8 billion fraud and corruption case against Koko and eighteen others is indicative of the challenge a pressured NPA is likely to face, the writer says.
Floyd Shivambu and Julius Malema at a press briefing in 2020. The two were regarded as the Siamese political twins of the Left. Picture: Jacques Naude Independent Newspapers
The new chief justice’s appointment must be seen as a corrective measure, since she was overlooked when President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Chief Justice Zondo over her head despite his dismal performance, the writer says.
OPINION: The unseemly spat between the African National Congress (ANC) President Ramaphosa and the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) comes as no surprise.
The love that Jacob Zuma enjoys is inscribed in the hearts and souls of ordinary people, argues Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: With so much promise expected and expressed in the post-1994 political dispensation, the book provides an insight into what went wrong, writes Prof. Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: President Cyril Ramaphosa has always been a trump card for the apartheid beneficiaries. They knew what they were doing when they funded his presidential campaign, writes Prof. Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: South Africans have had to contend with the crumbling economic infrastructure, writes Prof. Sipho Seepe.
Nowhere is the intensity of human destitution more so than in African communities. With unemployment estimated at 40%, African communities have become epicentres of grinding poverty and hopelessness, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: On the leadership front, President Cyril Ramaphosa has effectively outsourced the responsibility of decision-making to task teams and commissions, writes Prof. Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: Matshela Koko has effectively been denied the right to a speedy trial. Koko’s trial and tribulations fly out in the face of the provisions of the Constitution, writes Prof Sipho Seepe
OPINION: In writing this book Makgoba has done the country a great service. Its is a form of a patriotic duty in a sense that it embodies reflections of a person who was not simply satisfied in standing on the sidelines looking in, but someone who was prepared to soil his hands, writes Prof. Sipho Seepe.
With load shedding expected to be escalated this year, South Africa must brace itself for a winter of discontent.
OPINION: With the 2024 elections around a corner, most of 2023 is going to be wasted in litigation as parties seek to hold President Cyril Ramaphosa accountable following the report by the Section 89 Independent Panel, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
The African Proverb that “he who digs a grave for his enemy might as well be digging one for himself” appropriately paraphrases President Cyril Ramaphosa’s predicament in the unfolding drama of Phala Phala. Ramaphosa stands accused of having acted unlawfully in handling the burglary that took place at his Phala Phala game farm in February 2020.
OPINION: Mr Clean and Transparency ends his first term as President of the ANC with a party that is riven with division, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: The prospect of the ANC suffering an electoral defeat at the national level has never been more real. The re-election of Ramaphosa is manna from heaven for the opposition, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: The laws of physics suggest ‘that if people are trying to bring you down, it only means one thing, you already are above them’, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: Except for the wilfully blind, there is absolutely no doubt that South Africa has entered a winter of despair, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: Our assessment of the media, the judiciary, the untransformed academia and the so-called non-governmental sector must factor in the hidden vested interests, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: Dictatorship does not announce itself. South Africa is on a slippery path to a totalitarian state, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
OPINION: The ANC risks fizzling into political oblivion. It has become unsure of its ideological location. It is this lack of ideological rootedness that has opened it to capitalist capture, writes Professor Sipho Seepe.
