FRIDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2025, 06:47
The government’s expenditure on public servants’ salaries declined between 2013 and 2022, and the state employees wage bill is not the sole challenge to the nation’s fiscus – so says Public Service and Administration Minister Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi, who has defended the government’s enormous wage bill.
Former DA leader Tony Leon has written the insiders’ account of the early days of the GNU and it makes for a riveting read.
A new book argues that South Africa should ‘start again’, but the reviewer says it doesn’t make a strong case.
Nthikeng Mohlele is a unique voice in South African literature. Revolutionaries’ House is his most political work so far, but far from his best.
The ANC leads the unity government. If it leads South Africa back to happier times, that is most likely to benefit the ANC, rather than the DA.
Following Jacob Zuma’s tenure, during which corruption became endemic, tarnishing the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa was touted as the party’s saviour. But he failed to impress.
Having dominated South Africa’s political landscape for 30 years, the ANC now faces having to do a deal with its rivals.
The growing loss of support for the governing ANC raises the possibility of South Africa having its first national coalition government since 1994.
Opinion polls show that the uMkhonto weSizwe party enjoys significant support in KwaZulu-Natal, Jacob Zuma’s home province.
Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe is now the largest party in KwaZulu-Natal and the fourth biggest nationally.
The ANC tied itself in knots defending Zuma’s destructive bad behaviour in the past. Acting against him now would require it to own up to its sins.
Dissatisfied ANC voters were much more likely to switch their votes if they held positive views of an opposition party. However, the problem for the opposition is that few people held these views.
How Swapo and the ANC respond to any further decline in electoral support will define the future of democracy in both countries.
A threshold has been crossed, with a pessimistic outlook becoming more dominant than an optimistic one.
Mashatile could be the new broom that sweeps clean. Ramaphosa’s apparent confidence in him suggests that he has some latitude to do so.
Perhaps the combination of religious rhetoric and secular laws is a winning electoral strategy.
The veteran liberation struggle activist brings gravitas to every position he occupies.
The veteran liberation struggle activist brings gravitas to every position he occupies.
Mzala’s distinctive intellectual contribution combined a sophisticated grasp of revolutionary theory with the reality of ethnic nationalism.
The country’s long-dominant party has been losing support in elections.
The impeachment process could derail Ramaphosa’s political career and seriously hurt the governing ANC’s electoral prospects in 2024.