by Jeff Rudin | Jun 4, 2024
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick A Puzzle Bad faith is involved when the billionaire President of South Africa and the ANC, who presides over the world’s most unequal country, dismisses the objections to the NHI Act on the basis...
by Jeff Rudin | Jun 18, 2024
*This article is jointly published by Amandla! and the Daily Maverick. “Ηow dare you,” Greta Thunberg lambasted world leaders in 2019, “you have stolen my dreams and my childhood”. By 2024, one could say that world leaders have stolen much more than her...
by Jeff Rudin | Aug 5, 2024
This is Part One of a four-part series. Can there really be anything worthwhile still to say about the 2024 South African elections? Only a fool or the foolhardy would say so. There’s already a mountain of newsprint and media coverage given to the build-up to the...
by Jeff Rudin | Aug 12, 2024
This is Part Two of a four-part series. Read Part One here. We seem to have survived the rollercoaster of uncertainty, with its hopes and despairs, optimism and fears, following the election in May. Somewhat unexpectedly, we have a Government of National Unity (GNU)....
by Jeff Rudin | Aug 19, 2024
This is Part Three of a four-part series. Read Part One here and Part Two here. “There has been no concerted attempt to re-engineer our society to one with a shared national psyche of common purpose and greater good — nation-building and social cohesion. This must be...