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How the DA can win the 2024 national election

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The 2024 election results will be chaotic. With no party in a majority, President Cyril Ramaphosa will probably call for a government of national unity

Rise Mzansi, despite good intentions, ends up sharpening Vorster’s pencils

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Rise Mzansi’s manifesto, unveiled on 20 January with ambitions to contest the national and provincial elections, brings a seemingly refreshing perspective to South Africa’s political

Time for South Africans to disown the peddlers of poverty

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When Sébastien de Place, president of the Foreign Trade Advisors for France in South Africa, warned the government last week of the risk to foreign

Key to better SA is a growing economy

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With the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) just days away, the government must realise that increasing taxes to fund reckless, wasteful, and inefficient spending would

The arrogance of power: the ANC’s assault on accountability

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Civil liberties in South Africa are at grave risk, with police brutality and state violence being commonplace and, seemingly, untamed. It is vital to understand

Even the aged buffalo has horns: understanding the stubborn and formidable strength of the ANC

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In about 600 days, South Africans will be voting in the 2024 elections. For the first time since the middle of the twentieth century, just

Inflation and incumbency: a tiger on the prowl

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A key theme of global politics is starting to emerge: incumbents shouldn’t sleep too soundly – the tiger of inflation is loose and scenting blood.

Show South Africans you are serious

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It is approximately 680 days until the 2024 national and provincial elections, elections that will be unlike anything we’ve seen: an election in which the

Boris Johnson: he let the moment move on without him

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It feels like only last week: the Conservative Party, with Boris Johnson as leader, charging to the most significant Tory election victory since Margaret Thatcher.

Post-ANC governance: is this it? 

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We’re four months into new governments in some of the key cities of our country. And after more than 120 days of the trial run