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Sindile Vabaza
Sindile Vabaza is an avid writer and an aspiring economist.
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How should the Multi-Party Charter see its role if it wins?
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Sep 2, 2023
While debates will rage about whether the Multi-Party Charter will have the numbers it needs to win or not (or whether it will lead to
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Could the Tallaght strategy work for SA?
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Aug 5, 2023
“You don’t play politics with the economy…….An opposition which acts in a way that makes every step forward more painful than it needs to be
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A federal pan-Africanism
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Jul 1, 2023
The idea of a United States of Africa has been around since the days of Marcus Garvey’s 1924 poem “Hail, United States of Africa”, an
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Elections of consequence: a crisis of governance and ideology
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Jun 3, 2023
Commentator and analyst Moeletsi Mbeki contends that South Africa’s fundamental problem is a crisis of governance which undergirds every other crisis afflicting the country. This
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Is South Africa a failed state?
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . May 13, 2023
In short, no. But it is understandable why there is a pervasive feeling of failure within this country, which is largely due to the abysmal
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Why is South Africa failing?
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Apr 1, 2023
Much has been written about whether or not South Africa is a failed state, given its crumbling infrastructure, bankrupted and corrupt municipalities, weak economic growth
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How Cape Town can become richer and more productive
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Mar 4, 2023
While the City of Cape Town deserves many plaudits for being a beautiful, functional and well-run city compared with every other major metro in South
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How to build an effective coalition
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Feb 4, 2023
As another Johannesburg mayor, Mpho Phalatse, was ousted last week, there were heated accusations among coalition partners. Accompanying this vitriol were open letters and a
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The cost of state paternalism
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Dec 3, 2022
Although it is famous among middle-class tourists for its exquisite beaches, life in the OR Tambo district municipality in the former Transkei is far from
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Why 2024 matters: Socialism, corruption, violence, and degradation
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Oct 1, 2022
What happens in 2024 matters. To tell the story of South Africa is to tell the story of psycho-social and socio-economic misery wrought on this