Cyril Ramaphosa
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The President, His Son & The Taxi Industry
ALMOST a month to the day, the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) announced it would operate at 100% capacity…
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Ramaphosa – A Commander-In-Chief Who Has Lost All Command
It was on Thursday 26 March 2020 when South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Commander-In-Chief President Cyril Ramaphosa donned camouflage…
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Godi on The State Of South Africa’s Lockdown
NEWS reports that the ANC government was preparing a million graves for victims of the corona virus, even as cabinet…
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Social Distancing In Bed – CoronaSutra
Couples, married or not, are and have always infected each other of diseases, whether HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.…
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DG Implicated in Corruption Resigns Due to “Inability of Department to Deal With Corruption”
Director General of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), Mike Mlengana resigned abruptly this past week. Farmers weekly cited the reason…
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Liberation Armies Betrayed By Their Own Government
Members of South Africa’s liberation armies heeded the call to go and fight for their freedom and the liberation of…
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CORONA CAPITALISM: HOW WHITE MONOPOLY CAPITAL CONTINUES TO EXPLOIT CRISIS AND SHOCK IN SOUTH AFRICA; FROM APARTHEID TO DEMOCRACY
IN her book The ‘Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism’, award winning author and journalist Naomi Klein succinctly elaborates…
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Women Don’t Owe You A Smile Mr Editor
JUST when we thought we’d heard all the racist and sexist remarks hurled at Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional…
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How Will Africa, Indebted To Global Creditors, Repay The New Debt Trap Caused By Coronavirus?
AS AFRICA goes cap-in-hand to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and private lenders for support to help…
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A Billionaire From A Shithole Tells Racist Trump Africa Loves Him
JUST over a year ago US President Donald Trump unleashed a description which dominated newspaper headlines about countries he ranked…
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Apartheid-Style Propaganda Upon Us
IN the advent of South Africa’s democracy, much to the shock of the majority of people living in this country,…
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Black or White – Andre De Ruyter is Useless – finish and klaar
HAVING appointed one of his chief supporters Jabu Mabuza as the chairman of the Eskom board when by his (Mabuza’s)…
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Will Ramaphosa, Central to Marikana Massacre, Push For It To Become A Public Holiday?
AUGUST 16 will remain a day etched on our minds as the day, much like two other bloody massacres that…
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The African National Congress: Is It Dead?
FACED with an open rebellion from his executive during his presidency, the founding father of the African National Congress (ANC),…
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ANCWL Politics Embedded in ANC’s Male Factions & Unlikely To Independently Decide on Women Leaders
THE ANC has just released the list of premier candidates following the 2019 elections and it is dominated by men,…
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Nationalisation: The Boogeyman of Economic Transformation?
On Thursday, March 7 2019, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in Parliament that his government will “do away with” some…
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Can Politicians Take-On Stellebosch Mafia In FNB Racial Discrimination Case?
EMERALD Van Zyl has mounted such pressure against First National Bank (FNB) in recent days that the financial institution has…
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Why SA Needs Fresh Leaders In Parly
IN the week that Eskom announced the historic stage 4 load-shedding and bumbled from one excuse to another, our leaders…
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Flawed Monetary Policy behind Eskom crisis
Eskom recently applied to NERSA to increase electricity tariffs by a whopping 15% per year over the next 3 years…
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Call For Apology To Victims & For Appointment Of A Commission Of Inquiry To Investigate The Suppression Of The TRC Cases
Dear Mr. President, CALL FOR APOLOGY TO VICTIMS & FOR APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE THE SUPPRESSION…
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Mr President, Will You Sign The Political Party Funding Bill Before 2019 Elections?
IT HAS taken more than a decade of campaigning to have the Political Party Funding Bill which would see private donations…
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Five African States Going To The Elections This Year
Many countries are going to the polls this year. Here are five from the African continent that we’ve selected to…
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SA Is In Trouble, IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Is In Town
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde is in South Africa to meet Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago and…
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Hlaudi For President?
IN a few hours’ time, former COO of South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will host a gathering at which he…
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The Global Citizen Festival Was A Weapon To Put Us To Sleep
Dr Toni Luck is an inspirational and motivational speaker. She says she wept watching the Global Citizen Festival which took…
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Mmusi, The Affidavit You’re Waving At The President Is Fake
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE leader Mmusi Maimane has been waving an affidavit at President Cyril Ramaphosa which he’s using to call for…
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Is Agrizzi Making A Dash For The Airport?
RACIST Angelo Agrizzi’s Ferrari memorabilia is up for sale. His daughter-in-law Nikita Agrizzi is selling the memorabilia on her Facebook…
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Will Establishment Media Destroy Tito Mboweni?
By Pinky Khoabane FORMER Governor Tito Mboweni is now finance minister to replace the disgraced Nhlanhla Nene whose conduct some…
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The Era Of McCarthyism Firmly Upon Us
MINISTER Nhlanhla Nene finally confirmed in a letter of apology last week Friday that he had met the Guptas, not…
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Why Is Radebe Hiding The Directors & Shareholders Of The Independent Power Producers?
THERE was a time in our country, not so long ago, that the refusal by a minister to disclose information…
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The IPPs Whose Owners Radebe Doesn’t Want To Disclose
Here is the list of IPPs which signed contracts with Eskom. Energy Minister Jeff Radebe would not answer questions relating…
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South Africa’s Amnesia At Dangerous Levels
SOUTH AFRICA has a serious problem of amnesia. If we are to believe whites who live in South Africa today,…
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How Expropriation Of Land Without Compensation Will Work – Cyril Ramaphosa
It is nearly 25 years since SA became a democracy, yet the promise of that historic achievement has not yet…
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Theresa May’s Visit To SA Following Visits By Vladimir Putin And Xi Jinpin During Brics
In his 1959 inaugural address PAC founding President Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe said, “There is no doubt that with the liquidation…
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BRICS: Work Still to be Done to Defeat the British Empire
By Ramasimong Phillip Tsokolibane One can only be encouraged by the proceedings at the recently concluded 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg,…
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Is It A Matter Of “The Law Is An Ass” or “Crime Doesn’t Pay?”
THE Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land, has ruled that that the agreement between former President Jacob Zuma and…
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Media Gunning For Cyril
LAST week I asked if the cosy relationship between President Cyril Ramaphosa and media backed by white monopoly capital would…
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Why Is Establishment Media Unhappy With Land Expropriation?
WILL the ANC NEC decision to expropriate land without compensation break the cosy relations President Cyril Ramaphosa has had with…
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ANC Will Expropriate Land Without Compensation – ANC Lekgotla
The ANC 54th National Congress passed a policy to expropriate land without compensation. Yesterday the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC)…
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Xi Jinping in Africa: 10 Lessons from China that can transform Africa
The 10th summit of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, or collectively BRICS, was held in Johannesburg from Wednesday…
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Obama’s Hypocrisy On Inequality
SPEAKING at the Nelson Mandela Centenary Lecture yesterday, former US President Barack, put on his customary charm and smile and…
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Manipulation Of The Rand And Interest Rates, Unfair Taxation And The Concomitant Silence Of Law Makers
Have you ever wondered why Members of Parliament do not care when commodity prices go up such as, for example,…
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Will Cyril Ramaphosa’s Presidency Last?
SOME might have dismissed ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule’s statements in January when, at a rally in Kwazulu-Natal, he made…
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We Celebrate Legendary Guitarist Phillip Tabane
By Tom Head South Africa is in mourning for one of its musical heavyweights as popular jazz artist Philip Tabane passed…
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South Africa Was Invaded By Barbarians From 1652 The Chickens Are Now Coming Home To Roost
By Sam Ditshego Africa and other parts of the world were invaded from 1500 BCE until 1500 CE. The Munhumutapa…
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A State Bank Is On The Cards – Ramaphosa
By Pinky Khoabane PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed his party’s stance on the establishment of a state bank. Responding to questions…
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Mama Sobukwe To Receive National Order Of Luthuli
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa will on 28th April 2018 bestow Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe with the National Order of Luthuli for…
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Petition to Ramaphosa to freeze evictions and investigate bankers for crimes
Written by Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation King Sibiya, founder of the Lungelo Lethu Human Rights Foundation, has sent a petition…
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Of Political Returnees And Recruits: When Tactics Fail The Strategy
In politics, there’s emphasis on the inter-connectedness and inter-relationship between strategy and tactics. In order to achieve the overall strategy,…
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ANC Can’t Somersault On Nationalisation Of Sarb
By Pinky Khoabane On Tuesday 6 March 2018, the African National Congress (ANC) withdrew its motion to debate the nationalisation of…
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VAT Increase Hits Poor The Hardest. Cosatu Knows It, Will It Embark on Anti-VAT Campaign of 1991?
By Pinky Khoabane IT doesn’t matter which way you want to look at yesterday’s budget speech, it simply does nothing…
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Zuma Exit, Barrage of Fake News & Journalists Defending The Fake
By Pinky Khoabane PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma’s exit has exposed the shoddy standard of journalism in South Africa. Journalists’ code of…
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Yet Another Special NEC Meeting – Is This The End for President Zuma?
IN a week of the ANC’S shambolic handling of the transition of power between the head office Luthuli House and the…
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Today In History: Comrade Nelson Mandela Walks Free – 11 February 1990
Former President Nelson Mandela with his former wife Winnie on his release from 27 years of incarceration – The Day…
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Immunity For Jacob Zuma? What Of Equality Before The Law & De Klerk?
By Pinky Khoabane SA President Jacob Zuma (left) ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa (right) – the headache facing the ANC THERE…
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Ramaphosa Needs Grit To Midwife ANC Rebirth
Like Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, 80 years before him, the new ANC leader faces upheaval as he tries to steer…
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ANC Must Reclaim Its Radical Character For Fundamental Change In The Lives Of The People
By Tiisetso Makkhele & Themba Vryman We have decided to write this piece out of our strong devotion for the…
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The ANC’s 54th National Conference: Numbers, Facts, Assumptions And Predictions!
“Something close to the truth” Dr. Kgosi Maepa predicts Cyril Ramaphosa will win with a margin of 374 delegates. We…
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Plethora of ANCvANC Cases An Indictment On Secretary General’s Office
By Pinky Khoabane ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe THE plethora of cases in the courts, with one faction of the African…
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ANC Presidential Race Numbers – Every Candidate Is A Winner
By Pinky Khoabane Presidential Hopefuls Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma & Cyril Ramaphosa THEY say numbers dont lie, but boy oh boy, have…
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Smear Campaigns Will Haunt ANC Come 2019
By Pinky Khoabane There’s a seriously damaging smear campaign waged by both leading contenders in the lead-up to the ANC…
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Dlamini Zuma Responds To Alleged Investigation Into Exposure To Gupta Family
Media statement 20 October 2017 Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma responds to alleged investigation into exposure to Gupta Family Dr. Dlamini…
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Radical Economic Transformation Vs Retention Of Neo-Liberal Control of SA’s Economy At Heart Of Battle for Soul of ANC
By Greg Alexander Mashaba ANC Top 6: (From Left to Right) Jesse Duarte, Gwede Mantashe, Baleka Mbete, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa,…
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There’s Nothing Automatic About Being President of ANC: Mbeki
Here’s a video clip by former President Thabo Mbeki on the ANC tradition that the deputy president of the ANC…
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OPEN LETTER: Rupert: Not All Blacks Are Afraid Of You
By Tiisetso ‘Afrika’ Makhele Firstly, let me indicate to you what you already know. Your money is dirty and stinks…
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Full Judgement of Pietermaritzburg High Court that Nullified KZN/ANC Provincial Elective Conference
Former KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu Here’s the full judgement of the Pietermaritzburg High Court which declared the Kwazulu Natal ANC elective…
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BRIEF: SA Courts Busy This Morning
By Pinky Khoabane Sihle Zikalala who until this morning was the Kwazulu-Natal ANC Chairperson KZN ANC 2015 Elective Conference Null…
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Cyril’s Problem is White Monopoly Capital, Nkosazana’s The Guptas
By Pinky Khoabane ON either side of the ANC presidential race, the two leading contenders face fears stemming from association…
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Northern Cape Backs CR17
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa & Senzo Mchunu whose name appears on the CR17 Supporters’ Top 6 List The Address by…
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Know Your History – Why We Call Them White Monopoly Capital Owned & Controlled Media
Courtesy of African Curators http://africancurators.com/2017/09/06/know-your-history-village-diaries/ A few years ago JOHANN RUPERT bought a company called ELEMENTONE which holds a stake in…
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Jackson Mthembu Interview: ‘I am part of the CR17 campaign – we need to change the trajectory’
ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu is wary of further twists and turns to the smear campaigns that erupted spectacularly over…
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The Ramaphosa Emails: The Political Context
Greg Alexander Mashaba I have deliberately refrained from commenting on the issue of the email saga surrounding Deputy President Cyril…
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How DP’s Sex Scandal Unfolded: Requests for Iqbal Surve to Intervene to Leaks, Court Case & Confession to Indy’s Competitors
By Steve Motale I’ve noted with utter disgust the attempt by some elements in the media to cast aspersions on…
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South African Media proves to be Biased on Ramaphosa Leaks
Here’s an article sourced from CorruptJournalists.org in response to the article I wrote on Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s claims that…
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Does It Matter That Ramaphosa Is At Helm of HIV Council?
Zwelinzima Vavi leading the march to Aids Conference in Durban in 2016 LAST week I asked if we care if…
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Is It Still A Smear Campaign Even When True?
FOLLOWING the article by Sunday Independent that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was involved in extra-marital affairs with eight women, and…
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The Young Women Into Whose Accounts Money Was Paid are Part of 54 Students Me & My Wife Help: Ramaphosa
STATEMENT BY DEPUTY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA In response to questions put to him by the Sunday Independent – which have…
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Do We Really Care If A Politician Is A Womaniser?
Cyril Ramaphosa with his wife, Tshepo Motsepe AN email with questions about the private life of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa…
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Mashatile and Gwede’s Names on Ekurhuleni’s Top Six List
Paul Mashatile (left) and Gwede Mantashe (right) THERE was a time in history when politicians and their supporters met secretly…
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Will Paul Mashatile & Gwede Mantashe make it on #CR17 Top 6?
WITH ANC branch nominations for leadership positions starting in a few days’ time, one presidential campaign whose supporters have already…
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BUILDING A SOUTH AFRICA THAT WE ALL ASPIRE TO HAVE: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma at GIBS
Speech by Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) The Dean of the Gordon Institute of Business…
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Cde Angie Motshekga Must Desist From Trying To Rule ANCWL From the Grave: ANCWL
Minister Angie Motshekga The leadership of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) has received reports alleging that Cde Angie…
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“Ramaphosa Unfairly Vilified in Respect of Marikana”: KZN ANC Member
An ANC Member who has withheld his name says Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is being unfairly vilified by many in the ANC.…
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Seeking justice in Marikana
By Kim Heller. Article first published in The New Age Picture: Thapelo Morebudi IT IS a sight that I will…
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ANC’s Brutal Presidential Race: Regime Change, Leaks & Women Abuse
By Pinky Khoabane Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa sharing a light moment THE ANC presidential race is on! At the…
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Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on being “Ex”
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has hit out at critics who have associated her ascendency in politics to President Jacob Zuma, to whom…
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OPEN LETTER: Dear ANC NEC, Subject MPs to Lie Detector Test & Discipline Collaborators In Accordance With ANC Constitution
By Mlungisi Myezo ANC Top Six: Jessie Duarte, Gwede Mantashe, Baleka Mbete, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa and Zweli Mkhize Revolutionary…
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Open Letter: Dear Mr President, Bring the Youth To Your Side – Push for Pro-Poor Education Funding
By Pinky Khoabane Dear Comrade President After today’s no confidence vote in you, which the Speaker of Parliament Comrade Baleka…
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Will the Money flowing in ANC’s Presidential Race Deliver the Candidate for White Monopoly Capitalists ?
By Pinky Khoabane HISTORY has many stories of treachery. Nothing much has changed in political backstabbing since the Ides of…
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Raks Seakhoa Pays Tribute to Ronnie Mamoepa: Freedom’s Call
Freedom’s Call (For Comrade Ronnie Mamoepa, Adios!) A spirited soul refusing to be dispirited, Against all odds, you fought gallantly,…
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Presidency & South Africa mourn Comrade Mamoepa’s Death
President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa have expressed sadness at the death of Mr Ronnie Mamoepa, who passed…
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Another useless Blade threat to pull out of ANC
By Devine Hadebe South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Blade Nzimande has AGAIN threatened – if anyone still cares to…
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Slates for National Conference already Firmly in Place Mr Pres
By Pinky Khoabane AMONG the ANC’s proposals to be debated “extensively by the branches” is a power-sharing model that will…
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Has the SACP given up on the pursuit of socialism?
By Tiisetso ‘Afrika’ Makhele South African Communist Party (SACP), the first Marxist-Leninist party in Africa, was formed in 1921 by…
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About auditors, charters, and radical transformation
Of all the nonsensical policies South Africans have adopted over time, BEE scorecards must be regarded as the most embarrassing…
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Sunday Times Must Apologise to Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma: Ombud Rules
The Press Ombudsman has directed the Sunday Times to apologise to Dlamini-Zuma for stating as fact in its headline the…
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What a WikiLeaks report said about Thabo Mbeki
Historical events do not happen in isolation. This excerpt and attached document called High Treason, an Intelligence report on South…
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The Scramble for Coal – White Monopoly Capitalists’ 40-YEAR Contracts with Eskom
White Monopoly Capital is fighting tooth-and-nail to secure its stake in the coal mining industry and to ensure long-term contracts with…
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Dlamini-Zuma Her Own Woman
DR Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former African Union Chairperson, has hit out at critics who have associated her ascendency in politics to…
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Who Will Lead SA to the Promised Land?
By Pinky Khoabane After listening to Professor Chris Malikane’s presentation on radical economic transformation, it became very clear that the…
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Mathews Phosa, please resign and save CellSaf from clutches of corporate greed
By Pinky Khoabane Mathews Phosa’s Damascus letter may come to haunt the much needed political assistance CellSaf needs to block…
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Apartheid Israel’s links with Apartheid South Africa and Democratic Alliance (DA)
Mxolisi ka Nkomonde outlines the links between Apartheid Israel, Apartheid South Africa and the Harry Oppenheimer connection…. Harry Oppenheimer Diamond…
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