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- Sep 25, 2026
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Freedom from the ANC could be our real emancipation (opens the original)
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The party hasnât unshackled South Africans in the way that its leaders once envisioned. Bhekisisa Mncube is an author and columnist who won the national 2024 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for columns/editorials, as well as the same category at the regional 2020 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards. Ah, Chief Dwasaho! I have been invited to dance on the ANCâs grave. I have declined, but will bring respectable sneakers to the upcoming retirement party for its hold on government. Sou
Foot in mouth â politicians talk shit while South Africans live in it (opens the original)
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Decaying municipalities, dry taps and raw sewage are now matched by public representativesâ open insolence, proving that political failure in South Africa is matched by profound contempt. Bhekisisa Mncube is an author and columnist who won the national 2024 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for columns/editorials, as well as the same category at the regional 2020 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards. South African politics has acquired an occupational hazard more reliable than coalition
The villains, heroes and zeroes of the Republic of the Gupta (opens the original)
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The Republic of the Gupta was never built merely by ⦠crooks carrying cash in brown envelopes. Respectable people built it with access cards. People who sign⦠People who look away. People who know a guy. Ah, Chief Dwasaho! The Madlanga Commission has gone on recess until 15 September, and daytime television is suddenly useless again. No generals sweating under cross-examination. No political fixers explaining WhatsApp chats. No policemen discovering that their memories ended where the bank s
Idiocy is no longer the exception, itâs official policy in government (opens the original)
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The countryâs political circus is proof that, finally, thereâs a project that unites us across party and racial lines. Bhekisisa Mncube is an author and columnist who won the national 2024 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for columns/editorials, as well as the same category at the regional 2020 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards. Ah, Chief Dwasaho! There comes a point in the life of the Gupta Republic when idiocy ceases to be an unfortunate occurrence and becomes the organising pri
Welcome to the batshit republic where things smell rather foul (opens the original)
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We need industrial-strength air freshener to cover the strong whiff coming from our politicians and officials. Bhekisisa Mncube is an author and columnist who won the national 2024 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award for columns/editorials, as well as the same category at the regional 2020 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards. Ah, Chief Dwasaho! At last, South Africa has found something we can claim to have mastered: the English language. Not its tenses, not the kingâs English, not even s
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