I recently published an article analysing the degeneration of the ANC led tripartite alliance. Continue reading
Category Archives: corruption
Carol Paton, What kind of federation will emerge from the Vavi fracas?
Raymond Suttner on disintegration of the ANC/SACP/COSATU alliance
Greg Nicolson, Marikana police lied and faked Farlam commission evidence
Glenn Ashton, Failure to feed our people: South Africa’s lacklustre food security policy
Barry Bateman, Guptagate 27.0: Immigration laws? What immigration laws?
This story may seem a limited irregularity in the current South African political landscape, but it illustrates the sense of impunity that the Gupta family appear to believe they hold in the light of their close ties to the president (Number one)
Empowerment not enrichment (Business Day editorial)
Carol Paton, A wall of silence over methods behind BEE
Gauteng police boss appointment reversed on day of announcement
The announced appointment and withdrawal of the appointment of the Gauteng police commissioner within hours in one day, Continue reading
Pierre de Vos, Refusal to hand over spy tapes illegal
The withdrawal of hundreds of corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, immediately prior to his being elected president of South Africa was based on alleged tapes acquired by intelligence officials. Continue reading
Raymond Suttner: Government and tripartite alliance ‘no pitch’ at Marikana memorial
From the first days after the Marikana massacre Continue reading
Sisonke Msimang, Dear corruption watch. What about the victim?
This article by Sisonke Msimang asks why Corruption Watch did no more than ‘censure’ Zwelinzima Vavi Continue reading
Niki Moore,Anatomy of an assassination
Political assassinations are becoming a fairly routine part of political life in a number of provinces and many of the victims are alleged whistleblowers exposing corruption in the provision of housing and other basic rights. It is part of a broader subversion of constitutionalism and widespread resort to violence to implement private goals, albeit as leaders at various levels of the ANC.
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-07-31-kzn-anatomy-of-an-assassination/#.UfkmfhbH0y5
Raymond Suttner: Arundhati Roy on the buying off of Mandela and ANC by big capital: The engaged intellectual cannot empower people where there is no humility
According to Arundhati Roy, in part of a talk published on You Tube, 12 June 2013 when the struggle in South Africa ‘started ‘it was the Black consciousness (BC) people who were most powerful Continue reading
Editor’s note on Zuma cousin to coin it
Poverty reduction programme outsourced to Zuma cousin programmes to support small farmers
Raymond Suttner: Understanding contemporary South Africa requires careful study
No matter how shocking the evidence of corruption in contemporary South Africa may be Continue reading
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