“Non-violence is not to be used ever as the shield of the coward. It is the weapon of the brave.” – Gandhi Often when it comes to managing conflict it simply is a case of you not seeing an issue through the eyes of the other person and the other person does not see it..
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What Comes After The ANC? Revisiting Our Vision Of Tomorrow
Paul O’Sullivan At London Protest: ‘Corrupt Zuma’s Stooges’ Run South Africa’s Criminal Justice System
“Last week’s marches were racist” – Zuma
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President Jacob Zuma on Monday described last week’s protests demanding that he resign as racist. Tens of thousands of demonstrators, angered by years of corruption scandals, record unemployment and slowing economic growth under Zuma’s rule, marched through cities on Friday. Zuma’s recent sacking of finance minister Pravin Gordhan unleashed a fresh bout of public frustration,..
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How The Taxman Was Broken
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done…And Now…?
From Polokwane To Junk Status: The Rapid Radical Goose-Step To The Left
Not only whites eager to escape South Africa
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There has been a notable increase in the number of people looking to emigrate from South Africa following the economic and political events of this past week. This is according to immigration consultant, Chris Watters, who spoke to 702’s Abongile Nzelenzele. “On average we may receive a couple of inquiries a week whereas this week..
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Institute of Race Relations states that BEE failed
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What the public have long known by visible experience, is now recognised – black economic empowerment is a failure. This is confirmed by the Institute of Race Relations. Only 14% of the country’s blacks benefited from BEE. But what is not mentioned in the report, is the millions that went to the top ANC cadres..
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The True Reason behind the sacking of Gordan and what will happen next
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What explains the allegedly irrational decisions taken by the South African government over recent days? Two explanations suggest themselves. The first is that the decisions were not irrational, but part of a calculated power-play designed to further entrench the Zuma-aligned faction of the African National Congress (ANC). The second is that Mr Zuma took the..
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Act Of Stupidity Or Not?
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The ANC mistakenly sent notes about its national working committee meeting to its media national working committee meeting on Tuesday night April 4, 2017.The NWC met in Johannesburg as divisions deepen following President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle last week. According to the email sent out by mistake, issues discussed included: Change of leadership and attendant..
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Murder For These White Farmers, 20 Times The International Average
Reason behind SA’s junk status credit rating – full S&P statement
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In our opinion, the executive changes initiated by President Zuma have put at risk fiscal and growth outcomes. We assess that contingent liabilities to the state are rising. We are therefore lowering our long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the Republic of South Africa to ‘BB+’ from ‘BBB-‘ and the long-term local currency rating..
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How do we … as the people, impeach a president ??
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In court papers filed on Thursday, opposition parties asked the Constitutional Court to order Parliament to put a mechanism in place to investigate whether “the president has made himself guilty of an offence or inability”, which would warrant the exercise of Parliament’s impeachment powers. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the Congress of the People (Cope)..
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Zuma’s critics in ANC are very vocal .. but the question is .. will they act ??
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There is a lot of brave talk about standing up to President Jacob Zuma after the dismissal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan amid a wider Cabinet reshuffle which has been widely condemned as disastrous for South Africa. Predictions that the country has reached “a turning point”, is facing a ratings downgrade and plummeting investment, rising..
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What is Zuma’s master-plan with the reshuffle of the Cabinet?
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This is a power show by President Jacob Zuma who clearly believes he has enough power in the NEC and low enough risk of a Parliament split to be removed. As expected PGxit occurred as Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were removed in an open attack on Treasury. The reshuffle is designed to..
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