Raymond Suttner: Confronting crime and policing (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: Attacks on core state institutions (Polity video)
Recovering democracy in South Africa-in bookshops first week March
Raymond Suttner: How do we become safe: police, the private security industry and communities
Raymond Suttner: Freedom Charter can only survive if it is debated (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: Name xenophobic attacks as that, then they can be addressed (Polity video)
Recovering democracy in SA to appear February
My book: Recovering democracy in South Africa will be published by Jacana Media in February. Continue reading
Raymond Suttner: SAFM interview on Nelson Mandela (Podcast)
Raymond Suttner: Meanings of Freedom Charter not obvious, need debate (Polity)
Raymond Suttner: Protecting No 1 consumes the ANC (M & G)
Raymond Suttner: Freedom Charter is not a check list (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: ANC doesn’t only signify corruption, there were real heroes (Polity video)
Lebo Keswa: Gumede: a victim of factional ANC politics and responses by Adriaan Basson and Brad Cibane
Adriaan Basson: Interesting but strange piece. She is trying too hard to exonerate Gumede – why? This is not the first time his deals have made headlines. His Telkom tender should have been investigated, but wasn’t. His home affairs tender is still on Thuli Madonsela’s ever-growing pile. Maybe Lebo can give examples of companies/tenders that should be probed, but aren’t.
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Adriaan Basson See also http://m.mg.co.za/…/2010-11-05-robert-asked-me-to-pay…
‘Robert asked me to pay R100K to Telkom executive’ | Mail & Guardian (Mobile…
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Brad Cibane:
Brad Cibane I might have missed the point of the article. It seems to be based on information not shared with readers.
1. Keswa argues, if I am not wrong, that the ANC procures services and then does not pay them. When companies (or persons) claim payment, the ANC uses law enforcement to punish the demanders. This is a serious allegation not supported by anything in the article.
2. Unfortunately, her link to the Sunday Independent is faulty and self-cites. I do think she muddles one point. She seems to suggest that business people engage in criminal activities and are protected by the ANC. When they fall out of favor, they lose the protection. I don’t get the sense in this point. First, why won’t the accuseds expose the ANC. And, secondly, why engage in criminal activities in the first place?
3. The by-the-by point about procurement panels being incompetent is a non-starter. Panels decide based on documents placed before them. Keswa says “so what,” which I find puzzling!
My biggest point, I think, is that Keswa seems to have information that she is not sharing with the rest of us. She seems to be highlighting a serious problem but the Gumede case is woefully inadequate.
Raymond Suttner: ANC in 1990-2015 (Polity video)
Raymond Suttner: Troubles in tripartite alliance and alternative forms of unity (Polity Video)
Raymond Suttner: ANC in decline as it celebrates its 103rd year of existence
Raymond Suttner: Meeting Nomboniso Gasa
I notice that very many people are liking and commenting on the beauty of Nomboniso Gasa, Continue reading
Reconfiguring the ANC alliance in strengthening patriarchy
When looking at rising status of charismatic churches, this should be read together with the elevated status of the Traditional Leaders, both of which categories are highly patriarchal and authoritarian. What this means in realpolitik is that the constituency behind patriarchy is strengthened at the expense of the power of the bill of rights respect for gender equality and freedom of sexual orientation. That is what the Zuma era is all about because patriarchy also links with the extesnive violence more generally, so there is an underlying logic to all of this.
ANC and churches today: reconfiguring allies
While the article by Philip de Wet in today’s Mail and Guardian is good, Continue reading
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