A dinner party conversation: Johannesburg vs Cape Town
There was an interesting moment at a dinner the other night that has stayed with me. We were talking about the differences between Johannesburg and
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The citizen state
Anlu Keeve and Nicholas Lorimer discuss DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis’s speech outlining his ideological vision for the DA and the country. They also discuss the new Johannesburg rates tool developed by the Centre for Risk Analysis. https://youtu.be/OdWunM9lG5U?si=HbNf2AzcEpECV2e_
Mashatile leads from the back with outdated satellite internet
The government went shopping in Dubai, and came back with an inferior alternative to Starlink. All empowerment protocols observed, the deputy president, Paul Mashatile, declared himself to be “very proud” to help launch BrainSAT Satellite Services and Thuraya satellite phones
ANC’s old friends coming home to roost
South Africa’s anti-immigrant politics did not start with Operation Dudula. They started, in part, in Harare in 2000, when Robert Mugabe’s government began seizing commercial farms and the Zimbabwean economy began its two-decade collapse. From next door, the African National
Pule in the cabinet, Ramaphosa’s proposals to counter corruption in ruins
Dinah Pule was in the Zuma cabinet, but lost her position in politics over scandals around abuse of public funds on foreign travel with her boyfriend, and the acquisition of a pair of wildly expensive, red-soled Christian Louboutin designer shoes. Misappropriation
Better to have a fictional vigilante than a real one
If lively or amusing instant karma is ever to have a case study, then its authors may wish to revisit the events in the Johannesburg suburb of Kew in the early hours of a winter morning in the early 2000s.
The shadowy world of SA's political influencers
Nicholas Lorimer and Makone Maja discuss the growing sophistication of online influence campaigns on South African social media. They also discuss the new Minister of Social Development, Dina Pule, and Thabo Mbeki’s efforts to rescue South Africa–US relations. https://youtube.com/live/3fYXS11C2Ik?feature=share
The inevitable left-wing tilt of the Democratic party
Some readers who follow US elections might remember a backroom political strategist named James Carville, who is credited with having almost singlehandedly rejuvenated the Democratic Party way back when, guiding Clinton into the presidency after three successive GOP wins. He
Countering the perilous rightward drift: why we need a coherent socialist proposition
Once the “reds under the bed” bugbear against which the entire resources of PW Botha’s militarist apartheid state was marshalled, the “South African Revolution” (capital R) as it was once hailed in the townships, and its putative SACP vanguard, appears