The full account of the destruction from last week’s violent unrest is still unknown. What is clear is that the recovery will not be easy

The ANC has always promoted the virtues of redistributing wealth and, more recently, using expropriation without compensation as a means to achieve this. Well, now

Some comrades in our Party still do not know how to appraise the current situation correctly and how to settle the attendant question of what

In his speech on Monday last week (12 July), Cyril Ramaphosa reminded us twice that he was commander-in-chief of the defence force. But by the

The idea that it is permissible or even admirable to steal from or destroy the establishment, be it business in the local mall or employers

‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’, seems to be a proverb that the South African government has adopted wholesale. The yet

In May of 1976 the chairperson of the West Rand Administration Board, which had taken over the administration of Soweto three years earlier, told the

‘There is no food, no medicine, there is no freedom.’ Such was the cry of anguish from one of the desperate protesters in the recent

In the Netflix documentary that is bound to be made sometime in the future on what is South Africa’s most cataclysmic post-apartheid political event, the

‘Synchronously’ is not a word I have ever used: it means ‘happening, or arising, at precisely the same time’. It is apt for these times,