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The ANC has had dodgy relationships over the years, @Politicsweb editor James Myburgh told me last week. #geopolitics #markets #economy Link to full interview in the replies. ⬇️

The ANC, Ramaphosa downwards, has knives out for Prof William Gumede over his demolition of the BEE scam. Latest bombshell: secret mining research found 46 politically connected people secured 60% of BEE deals, becoming millionaires or billionaires overnight. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/willia…

There’s much concern over the unlikelihood of democracy arising from the Iranian ashes. It imisses the point. The overriding US goal is to contain a rogue state. If that means sacrificing democracy in a Venezuela-style deal with the clerics, so be it. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/trump-…

President Ramaphosa has slated Israeli and the DA for ‘the unlawful abduction and press-ganging’ of South Africans for deployment to the Gaza frontline of the Zionist state’s illegal occupation of Palestine. (Political traumas that never happened. WSM's column on @Politicsweb.) politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-bl…

A straight line runs between the late and unlamented Health Minister Dr Beetroot, and Water Minister Pemmy Majodinha, who moonlights as the Rain Queen. Both a little bonkers; both a lot useless. But the ANC sticks doggedly to its bad choices. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/from-d…

Every year, the pundits give Ramaphosa earnest advice as to what should be in SONA. It’s pointless because the ANC firmly believes it already has all the answers. SONA is a charade, a ritual to stave off discontent and buy the ANC time. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/cyrils…

John Steenhuisen’s management of Foot and Mouth Disease has been an unmitigated disaster. So to push him out as DA leader but let him keep the Agriculture portfolio is idiotic. It will create more problems for the DA down the line than it solves. WSM's column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/outgoi…

"Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country.” - Winnie Mandela, 13 April 1986 “The fact of the matter is that Comrade Winnie said what we have been saying everyday. The only thing that was new was that it was for the first time that someone said it inside our country on an open public platform.” – ANC broadcast, 15 April 1986

A full account of the ANC's attitude towards necklacing, while it was occurring, can be found here: politicsweb.co.za/opinion/how-th…

Jacpb Zuma delays justice by attrition. Ramaphosa delays it by diversion, as his response to the Madlanga Commission shows. The two are different in scale, but not in essence. It's the same ANC criminality, just different survival strategies. WSM on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/from-a…

The Board of Inquiry into the Iran navy’s participation in war games in SA waters — supposed to report past Friday — has not even appointed its members, Defence Minister Motshekga admits. It’s all about shielding Ramaphosa. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/ramaph…

The ANC’s big policy summit produced all the usual National Democratic Revolution crud on domestic policy. But on foreign policy there’s a glimmer of light — a direct response to Trump’s pressure — that opens the door to a US/Israel diplomatic reset. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/sas-cr…

Starved of resources, riddled with criminal infiltration, crippled by weak leadership and warped by ANC political interference. That’s the SAPS laid bare by sworn testimony before the Madlanga Commission. There’re good reasons to fear that the SANDF is no different. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/anothe…

Though he is being ridiculed over this exchange, it is perfectly possible Brown Mogotsi served on an SDU in 1993 as a 16 or even 14 year old. They also did not vanish in a puff of smoke at the end of 1993, when MK was nominally disbanded. KZN SDUs were still running operations against Inkatha years later, while others carried on running repossession operations on behalf of the movement.

🚨🔎CROWD SOURCING RESEARCH QUERY: Below is a picture of a liberation movement operative. He passed away many years ago, allegedly under suspicious circumstances. Does anyone know in which camps he received his training, while in exile, under whose command he served before returning to South Africa, and what his nom de guerre was?

The ANC fought tooth and nail for a constitution that would not meaningfully restrain their racial nationalist agenda. That they may have succeeded, in parts, does not mean that that the racial nationalist programme they subsequently implemented is not racial nationalist.

This is what was described in the late totalitarianism in Eastern Europe as the requirement to 'live the lie'. Ordinary people are required by the regime to submit to incompatible obligations. Firstly, they must accept that it is a moral imperative for there to be a plethora of race-based laws and regulations to reduce minorities, across all spheres of existence, to their proportion of the overall population. Secondly, it is misinformation, even treason, to say that these race laws and regulations exist.

The GNU's ‘strategic retreat’ was a love-fest. CR speaks of ‘quiet and nice joy’; Gayton Mckenzie says the spirit is at ‘holy’ levels. But theGNU doesn’t need Kumbaya, it needs hard negotiating between the partners to bring real policy shifts. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-ku…

Ramaphosa set up the Madlanga Commission to cauterise the public effect of the ANC–SAPS–crime cartel links. Instead, each day widens the toxic ring and will stain CR’s legacy as indelibly as state looting did Zuma’s. WSM’s column on @Politicsweb. politicsweb.co.za/opinion/the-po…