The Common Sense
15 June 2026
No. 57Subscribe

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Columns

The Two Biggest Parties Are Failing South Africa

Neither ANC nor the DA are reversing the cycle of stagnancy.

The Two Biggest Parties Are Failing South Africa
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Editorials

Youth Day, South Africa: The Promise Unfulfilled

Tomorrow morning at 10am it will be exactly 50 years to the hour since the police opened fire on schoolchildren in what would become the infamous Soweto uprising. The contemporary government has not done right by the generation that led that protest, or their children, and now their grandchildren.

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Columns

Coalition Likely to Govern Mpumalanga’s Biggest City After November

The ANC is unlikely to get a majority in Nelspruit after the November LGE.

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Politics

ActionSA Says GNU Has Failed to Deliver on Promises After Two Years

South African opposition party ActionSA last week accused the Government of National Unity of inertia and self‑preservation, saying it has failed to improve economic conditions, create jobs, or hold leadership to account since its formation two years ago.

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Columns

Resisting BEE Through AGOA

David Ansara writes on a new proposal to resist harmful racial laws in South Africa.

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The Green Hydrogen "Bomb",  South Africa's Illicit Economy And California's Broken Election System

The Green Hydrogen "Bomb", South Africa's Illicit Economy And California's Broken Election System

This week's of episode of Talking Sense looks at a green hydrogen project in the Western Cape, the illicit economy, elections in California, and the impact winter has on South Africa's protest cycles.

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