Category Archives: ANC
City council tells Concourt that it was ‘convenient’ to remove traders from Johannesburg city centre
Khadija Patel on perceptions of and actual corruption
Both perceptions of corruption and actual incidence of corruption have risen Continue reading
Jonathan Crush on impact of removal of traders on food security in Jhbg
Pierre de Vos analyses implications of Nkandla report
Johannesburg traders head for constitutional court
Ministers contradict one another on Nkandla
Philip de Wet, ANC sticks with failed Nkandla containment strategy
Beeld story on my exchange with Marius Fransman, ANC Western Cape leader regarding my unwillingness to assist ANC in election
Mail and Guardian editorial on Nkandla provisional report
ANC response to Nkandla report: we do not believe president responsible for any wrongdoing.
Payback time Mr President (Nkandla irregularities)
Nkandla report-Zuma in the deep end
Deeper and wider irregularities linked to Tongaat mall builder
Exchange with Marius L Fransman (on Faceboook), leader of the ANC in the Western Cape, asking when I would come and campaign there
Marius L Fransman: Prof, when you coming to help with campaign in WC, Continue reading
Greg Nicolson reports on atmosphere in and around traders action against Johannesburg council.
This is Gcina Malindi,SC, one of the trialists in a UDF treason trial of the 1980s, now a leading advocate. the words are that of Greg Nicolson summarising
‘Advocate Gcina Malindi represented the respondents and decided not to respond to the real issues. Instead, in a sleepy speech, he argued the technicalities of urgency. He said the traders had ample time to launch a court action since the effects of Clean Sweep were being felt in October. They were simply trying to waste the court’s time, he argued, and even asked the traders to pay the municipality’s legal costs, a request Judge Monamo responded to by saying the traders have no money. “If the older people can do something wrong then the younger people will follow because they learn from that,” the judge advised.
Malindi said that the traders are out of work is nothing new in South Africa. “There can never be an appropriate time to act,” he counselled. If it’s not at Christmas time, it will be when children are starting school.’
Raymond Suttner 