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Adapt or die: South Africa, represented here by President Cyril Ramaphosa, addressing the BRICS Business
Forum, has to strike a balance between idealogy and economics. Photo: GCIS

SA’s foreign policy at a crossroads

This does not require abandoning old allies but it does require recognising that the world has moved on from the ideological certainties of the past

Riding into the sunset: ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe said the alliance has been central to the country’s liberation struggle and all
partners were custodians of a revolutionary project in which South Africans had invested hope and expectation. Mantashe has indicated he is not
available or nomination anymore. Photo: ANC

Mantashe: SACP will pay a heavy price at elections

The ANC chairperson also urged the party not to elect a strongman president at its 2027 conference

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

ANC denounces US actions against Venezuela as SACP plans a march against Washington

The two parties condemned the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife as a violation of international law

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Mlungisi Louw/Volksblad/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa: ANC still discussing disbanding Gauteng, KZN executive committees

The party is expected to discuss the matter at its upcoming national executive committee meeting, set for next week

SACP  general secretary Solly Mapaila dismissed the notion of any alignment with MK. (Photo by Dirk Kotze/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Korner Talk | Solly Mapaila still riding his high horse

The South African Communist Party leader continues his tirade against alliance partner ANC for bringing the Democratic Alliance into the unity government

Lithuanian Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaite delivers an address at Sammy Marks Museum.

Lithuania celebrates 34 years of independence 

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

Headache: Despite efforts to provide homes, the relentless demand for housing with basic services in the country has not diminished over 30 years. Photo: Cuan Hansen/Getty Images

Department of Human Settlements

They have on the whole served satisfactorily, but the department has also been marred by decades of maladministration and corruption

(Rajesh Jantilal/Getty Images)

Has the tripartite alliance become an anachronism?

Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently of the ANC?

Chris Hani was shot dead in the driveway of his home in 1993. Photo: Supplied

Has the tripartite become an anachronism?

Can the South African Communist Party exist effectively and independently?

Healing: Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani at the wreath-laying ceremony on 10 April 2018 in Boksburg. This year she delivered the Hugh Lewin Memorial lecture at St John’s College, 30 years after her father was assassinated. Photo: Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images

Lindiwe Hani: ‘Realising dreams is a gift to my father’

Chris Hani’s daughter Lindiwe Hani has learnt to not be buried by his assassination 30 years ago but to draw strength from the way he lived his life

Liliesleaf Farm In Rivonia,South Africa, Architect Johannesburg, Liliesleaf Farm In Rivonia, Jhb, South Africa. . (Photo by View Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

OPINION| Liliesleaf Farm is a vital part of South Africa’s history that needs to be preserved

The secret headquarters of the anti-apartheid struggle and the events that took place there in the early 1960s hold stories well worth sharing

Strong arm of the law: After the national security disaster of the July looting, the police recovered allegedly stolen goods from people’s homes, in this instance in Vosloorus. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

State security in the presidency — the risks and opportunities

The need to protect the autonomy of the State Security Agency from political interference is even more critical now that it falls under the presidency

A communist party would be a great boon to our democracy, but the South African Communist Party won’t become this party.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

South Africa could use a communist party

The SACP is not building socialism, or even social democracy. Sadly, it has become just another party advancing the politics of patronage

The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Inkatha Freedom Party disputes M&G Ingonyama report

The IFP responds to the Mail & Guardian about an article it published in its August 8 to 15 edition on the establishment of the Ingonyama Trust

The BDS committee was formed in 2005 and has the support of more than 170 organisations in Palestine. (AFP)

Supporting BDS is a way to honour the Palestinian struggle

Boycotts and sanctions against Israel are a vote for nonviolence, democracy and self-determination

Marxism of a special type

His dissident views made him a renegade communist, but a new biography confirms Harold Wolpe as an influential radical voice.

Blade Nzimande

Nzimande uses Slovo memorial to lambast media, parties and unions

The memorial was meant to celebrate struggle stalwart Joe Slovo but Blade Nzimande took the opportunity to tear into the media and opposition parties.

Liberation struggle icon with husband Joe Slovo

Slovo, First biography – Bedfellows of a different feather

Alan Wieder’s biography on Joe Slovo and Ruth First focuses on the couple’s relationship, their different personalities and opposing views.

Night life: The view of Hillbrow from an apartment in Ponte.(Jono Wood)

All aboard the night tour

A kaleidoscopic night tour that is a welcome departure from Jo’burg’s silent northern suburbs.

“Our municipalities have a crisis of poor financial management or planning to attract revenue, and they need to be capacitated there,” Amos Masondo said.

[Archives] Would Hani and Slovo be accused of neoliberalism and counter-revolution?

Joe Slovo and Chris Hani died believing citizen activism would outlive them and defend the justice and human rights they fought for, says Jay Naidoo.