BANTUSTANISM 2.0 AND THE RUINS OF A FAILED NATIONAL BOURGEOUIS STATE
After three decades of experimentation with a bourgeois democracy, it is as clear as daylight that our country is in free fall. We have been hobbling from crisis to crisis with no real solution on the horizon. Except for the first decade when we were still wallowing in the euphoria of democracy, the post-colonial polity […]
POLITICAL PARTY CANDIDATES MUNICIPAL BY-ELECTIONS ON 11 FEBRUARY 2026
Nine candidates from seven political parties will contest by-elections set to take place in KwaZulu Natal and the Western Cape on 11 February 2026. The nominated candidates are as follows: KWAZULU NATAL WESTERN CAPE For more information, contact IEC Spokesperson Kate Bapela on 082 600 6386 or email: spokesperson@elections.org.za [IEC WatsApp Line: 0600 88 0000]
“ABSURD FOR ANYONE IN ANC TO EQUATE SACP’S ELECTION CONTESTATION TO THE MKP – A PARTY FOUNDED ON ETHNIC MOBILIZATION AND CHAUVINISM” – SAMBATHA
A few days ago, I read with distraught an article in one of the country’s leading newspapers titled: “Consider the implications’: ANC officials warn SACP against contesting elections”. The opening sequence of the article goes further proclaiming the following: “The ANC’s national officials have warned the SACP it could suffer the same fate as former […]
THERE’S A SENSE THAT SA’S GNU IS TEETERING ON THE EDGE COLLAPSE
By all accounts, South Africa’s conundrum that is the Government of National Unity (GNU) will likely fester into a debilitating wound before it gets healed anytime soon. The revelation of the DA and Patriotic Alliance (PA), two of the mainstay of the GNU, plus the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) – undertaking what looks like […]
MALEMA DIMISSES DEFECTION OF EX-EFF CHAIR MPOFU TO MK PARTY AS INCONSEQUENTIAL
EFF leader Julius Malema has dismissed the shock departure of his former party’s Chair Adv Dali Mpofu as inconsequential. Malema was responding to the latest jumping of ship by a prominent member of the EFF: “You can’t destroy that which you never built,” Malema said whilst attending the inauguration of the new Botswana President Duma […]