No amount of champagne, cakes or booze-fuelled parties can mask the reality of the what the ANC has become.
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Bruwer had testified in court in White River that both he and the prosecutor on the case feared for their lives on a daily basis. It is almost impossible to measure the cost and loss of an individual like Lt. Col. Bruwer in the fight against crime, writes
I understand that we are at the beginning of this new reality - also for medical personnel, but we have to quickly get this right, because as the WHO said yesterday to governments: "You have to test, test and test," writes Melanie Verwoerd.
I fell into the trap that many others my age did - I won’t catch it, and if I do, it doesn’t matter because I’m young and healthy and can recover as if it were any other seasonal flu. I viewed the world through the eyes of a potential victim, rather than as a potential carrier, writes Cat Walker.
This is a shared responsibility for all of us. In South Africa, we have a long and strong history of an active civic society. This was at its most robust during the state capture period when organisations stepped into the breach when the country’s leadership failed us, writes Mandy Wiener.
It is no longer the Chinese virus or the foreign virus. It is our virus. It is not "just another flu". It is much more potent than the "normal" flu although its symptoms are similar. writes Adriaan Basson.
The fate of nations (and leaders) are often defined in the actions they take in their darkest moments, and not in the decisions they make during prosperous times, writes James de Villiers.
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In moments such as these, reasons and reasonableness are the first casualties out of the window while panic and public pressure dictate responses, writes Ralph Mathekga.
This virus will be extremely disruptive, and our priority is to safeguard the health and well-being of all South Africans, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Clearly drawing from former US president Franklin Roosevelt's famous speech about fear in 1933, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered arguably his best address to the country on Sunday night, attempting to calm frayed nerves and calling on a sense of national unity to combat the dreaded Covid-19 coronavirus, writes Pieter du Toit.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should have declared a state of disaster earlier when the coronavirus hit South Africa's shores almost two weeks ago, but his response on Sunday night was powerful and on point.
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Over the past seventy-thousand years, the ability of Homo Sapiens to overcome epidemics is not only part of the reason humans have survived, but also part of the reason for our misplaced sense of self-importance over the environment and our fellow animals, writes Tinyiko Maluleke.
In this week’s Friday Briefing investigative reporters Sarah Evans and Kyle Cowan track her career – including a very close relationship with the intelligence community – and attempt to answer the question: why is Mkhwebane here, and what does she want?
The courts found that she doesn’t understand the law, she fails to act rationally and ignores evidence. And these findings are compounded by the SARB and Estina judgments. Her position is untenable, and she cannot survive, writes Pieter du Toit.
If this was the only judgment against the Public Protector's reports, one might be entitled to consider that this was an aberration. Sadly, this is not the first time that a court has made a similar finding, writes Serjeant at the Bar.
Do we really not have the information, or the means by which to obtain it, as to how state capture has happened? Is amnesty a price worth paying for something we may well already have? writes Nicole Fritz.
AfriForum respects Kriek’s right to believe that he and organised agriculture can prevent expropriation without compensation by attempting to win the ANC’s favour and pacifying them, writes Kallie Kriel.
Over time five different courts have ruled that Mkhwebane had lacked a fundamental understanding of the law, that her judgements were deeply flawed and that she had gone beyond her powers, writes Melanie Verwoerd.
We should continue the health education of promoting safer behaviours - hand washing, disinfection, masks, ventilation, and avoidance of risky contact and measures to strengthen our immune system, writes Anna Mokgokong.
The idea of a charter city is enticing - however, it raises serious moral issues in the context of South Africa as it effectively entails us building new cities to avoid the urban decay and also the social problems that has engulfed our metros, writes Ralph Mathekga.
Ethical leaders can only transform our society if they emerge from a functional, constitutionally-sound electoral system that caters for the participation of a range of political actors and movements, writes Lindiwe Mazibuko
In a move that surprised all and sundry, AfriForum recently brought an urgent application for an interdict in the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda against the sheep export company, Al Mawashi, from exporting 60 000 live sheep to Kuwait. Dan Kriek wonders why.
The doctor says that he has had a lot of Chinese patients come in, terrified that they might have the virus. It reminds him of swine flu where he saw about 100 people a day, and only three would test positive, writes Jenni Evans.
In this week's edition, political strategist Paul Boughey argues that it is evident that the established political players are not up to the task. It is hard to disagree with this assessment. Analyst Phumlani M. Majozi warns that if the DA does not get its act together, he foresees a national government made up of an ANC-EFF coalition - a scenario, he says, will be the worst possible outcome for South Africa.
But these faux revolutionaries, in red overalls in Parliament, but living large off the backs of VBS pensioners in the lap of luxury elsewhere have a policy set which will make South Africa even worse than the misery being experienced in Venezuela, writes Paul Boughey.
We should view land claim recipients not as beggars who cannot make for worthy business people or investors but as deserving neighbours who should have been living and operating businesses in areas such as Constantia for generations, writes Mahomed Khalid Sayed.
It can be said that young South Africans, which make up a very large part of the South African population, are not a priority for our government - we've seen young people play second fiddle when it comes to economic growth and other big issues such as safety, writes Sheilan Clarke.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been handed a series of damning court judgments, she has been accused of sloppy investigative reports and suspected of maintaining dubious political alliances. She has become an active political player. So, the question is: Why is she here, and what does she want? reports Sarah Evans and Kyle Cowan.
She wields constitutionally protected power to safeguard our democracy. It was not for nothing that the Constitutional Court likened the Public Protector to a biblical David who takes on the powerful Goliaths in public office, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
Where the state is directly complicit in unwarranted loss of life, it can only be just for it to incur all the funeral costs and compensate families for emotional trauma, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
There is a sense of the country holding its collective breath as we wait for the storm to hit. Whereas we can’t know just how bad the situation will be, we do know that the country is about to face the pandemic head on, writes Howard Feldman.
Suffering from a COVID-19 infection in the heart of winter in a confined home at the margins that has been made dark and cold by failing electricity supply is a hellish scenario that no one in any household in our country should have to face, writes Heinrich Cyril Volmink.
The macro-political and economic environment heaps pressure on Minister Zweli Mkhize and the broader ANC to perform at levels well beyond their recent abilities, writes writes Daniel Silke.
The proposal is enormously controversial and seemingly being shot down by the public and correctly so, but often when such radical ideas are given time to marinate, they become more palatable, writes Mandy Wiener.
Any economic system (communalism, capitalism, socialism and communism) is meaningless without the contributions of young people, because the population of many modern states largely consists of young people, writes Thlologelo Collen Malatji.
His analysis was brutal: South Africa is not a country of savers. Our pension funds are effectively the only pots of money left. This was frightening and sobering to hear from the head of state, writes Adriaan Basson.
By reading trauma narratives that document stories of women’s hidden suffering, we inadvertently are put into the role of the witness, writes Juliana Claassens
The debate - along with the hyperbole and hysteria whipped up by some like Afriforum and the DA - has been divisive at a time when we need to build more unity, writes Brett Herron.
The DA needs to change its strategy. If it doesn’t, I see the EFF governing with the ANC in a coalition government years from now. That will be catastrophic to South Africa and our democracy will be doomed, writes Phumlani M. Majozi.
Should Mkhize preside over a less-than-adequate response which flounders in providing an efficient response, he will find it very tough to sell an enhanced role for state care in the broader South Africa, writes Daniel Silke.
To defeat corruption, South Africa cannot further confine its already narrow formal avenues of upward mobility. It must expand them to offer people legally-approved paths out of the illicit economy, writes Ryan Brunette and Jonathan Klaaren .
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