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Ramaphosa himself is not unaware of the political impossibility of the fantasy of a return to the way things were before Zuma, but now with added austerity, writes the author. (David Harrison/M&G)
ANC

South Africa must avoid authoritarian solutions

A nationalistic, gangster political faction is ready to exploit the crisis created by social inequality

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party
BOOK

Avoid a Modi authoritarian solution for South Africa

A nationalistic, gangster political faction is ready to feed off the crisis created by social inequality

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
BYGONE BRIGADE

It ain’t necessarily so

"This much I know is true: don’t trust those who say things with absolute certainty. Back in primary school, they told me I couldn’t subtract a big number from a little number.…

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
ANC WOMEN S LEAGUE

No scented soap in Tuynhuys

Pity the president of the ANC Women’s League … for the sister truly reigns in troubled times. As if presiding over a government department crippled by scandal, ineptitude and…

  • Khadija Bradlow
4 min read