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Already an also-ran: Sbusiso Dyanase, a Democratic Alliance caucus leader in Sedibeng, is challenging Geordin Hill-Lewis in the leadership race. Photo: DA
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Hill-Lewis and the DA’s non-race

Hill-Lewis remains the overwhelming favourite to replace John Steenhuisen as DA federal leader but Dyanase’s candidacy has turned the race into a debate over internal democracy

  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Mandisa Makgakga
8 min read
COPE co-founder Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota has died at age 77.
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Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota, the family man

Like many of our struggle heroes, the many years he spent serving prison terms denied him a stable family life. This left his wife Cynthia, to raise their children largely alone…

  • Matshediso Setai
6 min read
Reputational harm: ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula and ANC Johannesburg chairperson Loyiso Masuku, below, were both defamed on social media and approached the courts to have the defamatory posts removed. Photos: X
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Social media fuels defamation cases

When someone is defamed, particularly online, speed matters

  • John Makate
4 min read
Brazen theft: When a political formation that played no role in the armed struggle adopts the MK name and symbols, it is more than confusion, argues the writer. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
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The ANC’s heritage under siege

Others go as far as attempting to steal the very names and symbols that belong to the ANC and its fallen heroes

  • Cornelius Monama
9 min read