“Expropriation without compensation” is unlikely to speed up land reform. Meanwhile, mass evictions of land occupiers are often from land already owned by the state.

There was no one more appropriate to deliver the worst budget speech and possibly the most anti-poor budget since the advent of democracy than Malusi Gigaba. He has served his purpose and can now be fired.

Ramaphosa’s presidency has potential to revive the ANC and reshape the opposition political landscape.

With Cyril Ramaphosa ascending to the presidency, the country has been given its best chance, out of what was viable and available in the ANC leadership, to recover from over a decade of mismanagement and looting during Jacob Zuma’s tenure.

A sellout is someone who betrays his own principles and his followers for personal venality. Where is the evidence that South Africa’s Mandela betrayed himself and deceived his countrymen for self-gain?

Fixating on the removal of Mugabe or Zuma is a mistake. ZANU-PF must be voted out and the ANC must either completely reform or suffer electoral defeat if South Africa hopes to recover from its rotten president

Minister Fikile Mbalula is exacerbating a deadly combination of public vigilantism and police brutality in South Africa. People already terrorised by crime are set to find themselves at the mercy of abuse by the police and the army if the minister is not checked.

The South African arm of the international auditing firm KPMG has been exposed for its role in supporting the Gupta-Zuma state capture project.

Using an unaccountable police force to enforce hardship on the poor and protect the corrupt has created a situation that is not only deadly for citizens but fatal for South Africa’s democracy.

Unless something changes dramatically, the country’s top tertiary institutions may collapse with surprising speed. Can their demise be reversed?