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Following on from the mountain of Jacob Zuma promises on his roadtrip last year, South African ministers and ANC leaders are taking turns making bold statements about how they’re going to crack down on this, that and the other – small print – if they get elected again, of course. South Africa is currently ranked [...]

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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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Yesterday, Mr Zuma addressed the Namibian Chamber of Commerce. Subjects of the speech included land reform and the need to do it faster. Mr Zuma said the ANC wanted to reach a target of 30% land redistribution by 2014. A much funnier topic that Mr Jacob Zuma touched on at that meeting, however was that [...]

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Pikoli is, or was rather, the national director of public prosecutions (NDPP). In spite of the results of an inquiry chaired by former speaker of the Parliament, Frene Ginwala, president Kgalema Mothlante decided to fire Vusi Pikoli. The formal inquiry found Pikoli was fit to hold office and should be reinstated. Inquiry schminquiry. Anyway the [...]