By Anees Teladia South Africa’s 25 years of hard-won freedom and democracy is a milestone, but for many, this freedom has been tainted. While South Africans celebrated Freedom Day on Saturday 27th of April, there was a conflicted mood among political activists at the IPSA Freedom Day Symposium held at[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that members of the ANC were responsible for and allowed state capture. In a broadcast on eNCA just after 21:00 on Monday, Ramaphosa said: “The state was captured. It was the ANC that was captured. Yes, as the Zondo commission [into state capture] unfolds, clarity will become[…]
The Electoral Court sitting in the High Court in Johannesburg will on Monday morning hear arguments from the Freedom Front Plus that the Black First Land First(BLF) party be deregistered because it discriminates on racial grounds. The BLF only allows black people to be party members. The FF Plus earlier[…]
By Anees Teladia With South Africa already being a site of severe socio-economic inequality, women arguably face another crisis of inequality within the existing one, i.e. gender inequality. Accordingly, the Rita Edwards Collective decided to host an election debate which would allow for a focus on the challenges women face[…]
By Anees Teladia The South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy, the Dullah Omar Institute and the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Department of Political Studies held an International Conference on the 2019 National and Provincial Elections looming in South Africa. The conference[…]
African National Congress (ANC) deputy president David Mabuza says it’s exciting that former president Thabo Mbeki has joined the ANC’s election campaign. Mbeki joined an ANC forum at the Rand Easter Show to encourage South Africans to trust the ANC again. Mbeki also made headlines when he confessed there was a time[…]
As electioneering kicks into overdrive with a week and a half left until voting day on May 8, the ANC has accused the DA of destroying and removing their election posters. In a statement by the ANC on Thursday, spokesperson Dakota Legoete called on the DA to come clean and[…]
Former president Thabo Mbeki says it would have been dishonest of him to campaign for the ANC in previous years while it was “veering off course”. Mbeki was speaking at the Rand Easter Show on Tuesday afternoon, while campaigning for the ANC ahead of elections next month. Mbeki started off[…]
The row that just won’t quit has resurfaced over the past seven days. Patricia de Lille and the DA have renewed hostilities like it’s 2018 all over again. Aunty Pat has asked the Western Cape High Court to launch an interdict, preventing her former party from “spreading lies” about her. The[…]
By Anees Teladia With elections commencing soon, supporters of Palestine need to put increased pressure on political parties and raise the question of Palestine. Those who support the Palestinian cause and people, ought to insist that the different political parties formally recognise the rights of the Palestinian people and that[…]
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