South Africa does not lack wealth. It lacks power in the hands of the majority.
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Namibia: voting with our feet?
Namibia held regional council and local authority elections on 26 November 2025.
The SACP’s election gambit: betrayal masquerading as liberation
The SACP’s current trajectory serves the interests of the bourgeois nationalist elite and perpetuates the suffering of the working class.
ANC’s belief in preordained leadership: a stumbling block to renewed politics
Organisations have to understand that leadership is earned by advocating for people’s needs. History can also help us to appreciate that leadership is not endowed.
SACP’s umms and ahhs: holes in motivations to contest elections
The SACP’s steadfastness to implement the organisation’s decision to independently contest the coming local government election is proving to be a source of consternation within the party and among its partners, the ANC and trade union federation Cosatu.
Public funding of collective transport is the only sustainable future
The lack of innovative government policies over the last decade has deepened the transport sector crisis we see today.
SA needs to reject the dogma that wages are a burden
Suppressing wages suppresses demand, and suppressed demand suffocates investment.
Madlanga evidence shows urgent need to protect whistle-blowers and investigators
As a society under siege from lawlessness, we should all insist on the protection of corruption investigators and whistle-blowers, regardless of the sector in which they operate.
Investment in the public sector should be used as an anti-inflationary tool
The announcements in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) about a lower inflation target and cuts to public expenditure in real terms will exacerbate material insecurity and worsen developmental outcomes.