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JOVIAL RANTAO | ‘Do not start the fire’ warning for Afrikaner’s US diplomacy (opens the original)
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The Thabo Mbeki Foundation has entered the most combustible argument in SA’s foreign and domestic politics, and it has done so at book length. In a 123-page paper dated August 31, titled “The United States of America and the Future of the Afrikaners in South Africa”, the foundation, whose patron is former president Thabo Mbeki, sets out to answer a question Pretoria has struggled to answer with authority: why has Washington come to regard a section of SA’s white minority as a persecuted people,
JOVIAL RANTAO | The coup that wore a uniform and the general who yanked off its medal (opens the original)
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Let us role-play, briefly, in the alternate universe our suspects were so busy decorating for themselves — a universe with better furniture, worse morals and absolutely no general in combat fatigues ruining brunch. President Senzo Mchunu. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Not “minister on special leave”, not “the fourth witness to appear before the ad hoc committee or Madlanga commission”, but president. Head of state. Motorcade and all. Never mind that the man currently can’t get past his own
JOVIAL RANTAO | The US lie that cannot outrun SA’s truth (opens the original)
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Lies are dangerous. They are infectious. They are sensational, which is precisely why they travel faster and further than the plain, unglamorous truth ever will. And a lie repeated often enough by its own source stops behaving like a lie at all. It calcifies into something the source itself comes to believe — a manufactured reality that then demands to be acted on, defended, funded and enforced. That is the most dangerous stage of any lie: not when it is first told, but when its author starts bu
JOVIAL RANTAO | Mbalula, Dlamini-Zuma and the reckoning SA’s democracy can no longer avoid (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of political courage — or recklessness — in dragging your own party’s dirty laundry into a court of law where it can no longer be spun, softened or managed away in a closed national executive committee (NEC) lekgotla. Fikile Mbalula, secretary-general of the ANC, has done exactly that. By serving Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma with papers demanding she retract, substantiate or answer in court for her claims that he distributed cash to delegates at the ANC’s 2022 national el
JOVIAL RANTAO | How asset recovery defeats corruption (opens the original)
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The most powerful message South Africa can send to corrupt officials and criminal syndicates is not a jail sentence or a public rebuke. It is the silent seizure of assets purchased with stolen money — the confiscation of luxury vehicles, suburban properties, foreign bank accounts and luxury goods that were meant to be the spoils of illicit enterprise. When the state claims these assets, it delivers a singular economic truth that transcends courtroom rhetoric: crime does not pay. Before assessing
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