Columns

Tony Blair has written a startling essay for Britain’s collapsing Labour Party, warning against the danger of not having a plan, the instinct to turn left, and the importance of abandoning net zero. All that advice is equally relevant to President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC, and South Africa’s Government of National Unity.

Politics

Does a by-election in Emfuleni herald the Democratic Alliance’s long-awaited breakthrough among black voters?

Politics

Starting today, the South African Communist Party will convene a three-day Conference of the Left in Boksburg, bringing together left-wing political parties, trade unions, civic movements, community organisations, intellectuals, solidarity groups, and activist formations.

Columns

Thank goodness for the country’s courts and for its civil society activists, and shame on John Steenhuisen, Geordin Hill-Lewis, and the DA too. For far too long, South Africa’s farmers had suffered under a draconian set of FMD regulations promoted and enforced by Steenhuisen that prevented farmers from sourcing and applying the vaccines needed to save their businesses and relieve the suffering of their often desperately ill cattle.

Columns

Christo van der Rheede says Hermann Pretorius should stop with the caricaturing but that the De Klerk Foundation and IRR share the same long-term vision for South Africa.