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[Source: Politicsweb by John Kane-Berman.]
A striking feature of the reaction to the vandalism unleashed by the Rhodes must Fall movement at the University of Cape Town a few years ago was that various academics and others bent over backwards to condone it. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick.]
Our colleague, Pieter-Louis Myburgh, has written the smash-hit #GangsterState – Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture. In it, he chronicles the building of the patronage networks by using state funds. On Tuesday, we saw evidence of the Gangster State at work and of Magashule’s network in full swing. Read more
[Source: Business Day by Pri Hollis.]
The department of trade and industry’s reckless pursuit of the Copyright Amendment Bill will have disastrous consequences for SA creative industries. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Ismail Lagardien.]
With the election eight weeks away, the EFF appears to have made something of a pincer movement on the ANC. They have prodded the ANC on policy, and made it more inviting for disaffected ANC members to join their ranks. In the meantime, the ANC seem to have caved in to two of the EFF’s main policy demands – that the Constitution be changed to effect land expropriation with compensation, and that the South African Reserve Bank be nationalised. Read more
[Source: Politicsweb by William Saunderson-Meyer.]
The general election is creeping closer, now exactly two months away. But for the Economic Freedom Fighters it’s been just another mundane week in politics, dispensing the usual menace and mayhem. Read more