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Following the Ginwala inquiry and the Pikoli firing episode, one can only wonder who is really pulling the strings in South Africa. Mr Motlanthe is firmly establishing himself as cool-bearded, stop-gap president that no one will ever remember. He has the opportunity, in his short tenure to achieve greatness by addressing a number of pressing [...]

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This cartoon follows from an earlier post asking if would you vote for a DA-Shikota alliance. It seems South Africa is ready for a change given yesterday’s by-election poll results in the Western Cape. Cope, whose candidates ran as independents because its name is not registered with the IEC as yet, ate significantly into the [...]