The Common Sense
21 May 2026
No. 41Subscribe

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Ramaphosa and Impeachment: What Now?

Koos Malan writes on what faces President Cyril Ramaphosa following the ConCourt decision on a possible impeachment.

Ramaphosa and Impeachment: What Now?
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Politics

DA Accuses ANC Of Treachery in GNU

The Democratic Alliance has accused the African National Congress of using parliamentary study groups to undermine DA ministers serving in the Government of National Unity.

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Columns

These Are the People Who Will Stop Mashatile from Wrecking SA

As anxiety builds around a potential governing arrangement involving Paul Mashatile, the Economic Freedom Fighters, and uMkhonto weSizwe, it is worth remembering that the good sense of ordinary South Africans remains one of the country’s most important countervailing forces against the harm such leaders may seek to do.

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Global

Trump In Trouble: Good News for the ANC

The African National Congress , which has been staking South Africa’s US policy on hopes that President Donald Trump is rendered a lame duck by the November midterm elections in the United States, will be heartened by data recently out from The New York Times.

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Politics

FW Would Have Disagreed with You, IRR Tells De Klerk Foundation

The Institute of Race Relations and the FW De Klerk Foundation are arguing over South African race laws.

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