A fair amount of drama is happening in the old homeland this weekend. It's the Mbeki-Zuma stand-off in the high street, guns at the ready. For the bulk of the white population, as well as some of the black diamonds (a name given to the emerging black...
While South Africans anxiously await the beginning of Polokwane to see who will come out tops -- Mbeki or Zuma -- the rest of the world equally holds its breath. Especially the African continent is concerned about the outcome of the presidential batt...
The most unfortunate reality at this moment is that our collective fate and future is in the hands of just over 4 000 ANC delegates to next week's Polokwane conference when the party is facing its worst internal crisis yet. Therefore, the key qu...
If you want to know why ANC policy won’t change dramatically whoever wins in Polokwane, take a look at the front page of one of our daily business newspapers on Tuesday morning, which features a photo of Jacob Zuma, Tokyo Sexwale and Zwelinzima Vav...
In June this year I wrote on my blog that Jacob Zuma was “fading fast” and that his presidential bid was “done for”. Now, less than a week before the Polokwane conference, it is perhaps appropriate to eat humble pie and admit that I was spect...
I've been in the US on holiday for the past few weeks, and although I've kept a distant eye on things from overseas, I am interested to note the distinct rise in political tension since my departure, drawn from the regional voting for the succession ...
For all those political junkies out there, I tried something new (for me, at least) on Wednesday night and blogged about President Thabo Mbeki's interview with the SABC.
After 10 minutes, the political editor of the SABC has only asked boring, swe...
Having gained notoriety last year for our fairly tame "unauthorised" documentary film on Thabo Mbeki, it’s a bit of an anti-climax to finish our most recent film on the ANC succession race, Through the Eye of a Needle, and to realise that there’s...
It is more than a little ironic that ANC leaders who once fought so hard to ensure that all of us can vote freely have spent the past few weeks trying to convince us that those South Africans who actually belong to the movement should have far less o...
Be afraid of the spectre of a President Zuma. Thus blares the Financial Mail on its cover last week.
Inside the mag, you might find even more reason to be afraid. It's an article about the present president, titled "Arms and the man", writt...
