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MIKE SILUMA | Steve Biko: Lessons for SA today (opens the original)
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The reopening of the Steve Biko inquest, nearly 50 years after his death, is relevant for the country on several levels. First, it should help refute attempts by apartheid apologists to whitewash the system as benign but misunderstood. Second, it is a reminder of how far our country remains from being a more just and fairer society for all and that we are, in many ways, regressing from our founding vision of unity and nonracialism. At the time of his murder by apartheid’s security police, Biko w
MIKE SILUMA | Idac debacle provides elementary lesson for South Africa (opens the original)
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Perhaps it’s a consequence of our exasperation with endemic corruption, especially in our public institutions, but we have become very prone to seeing our world in binary terms — as either black or white, inhabited by saintly heroes or incorrigible devils, with nothing in between. A case in point is the public response to the stupefying revelations about the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) at the Madlanga commission. Thanks to its commissioners and evidence leaders, who are k
MIKE SILUMA | Mandela Day calls for transformation, not just symbolism (opens the original)
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The murder of SA Communist Party and ANC leader Chris Hani by those intent on halting the country’s historic transition from apartheid stands, more than any other incident of its time, as the one event that nearly pushed SA over the abyss. The killing of Hani, one of the liberation movement’s most popular leaders, unleashed deep shock and outrage among most South Africans and his followers. The consensus is that at that crucial juncture of SA’s history, it was the voice of Nelson Mandela that se
MIKE SILUMA | Morero may deny the crisis but Joburgers live it daily (opens the original)
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Crisis? What crisis? So says Joburg mayor Dada Morero while his city’s finances sink deeper into the mire. Not for the first time, finance minister Enoch Godongwana was moved this week to sound the alarm about the dire financial state of more than five dozen municipalities — with Joburg being by far the biggest and most economically consequential. The City of Gold was placed in the blessed company of the likes of the notoriously misgoverned Ditsobotla in North West, the under-provincial-interven
MIKE SILUMA | Our political system is letting the country down (opens the original)
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Tuesday’s immigration protests, which disrupted economic activity and caused the nation much angst, must serve as a wake-up call for our political system and the parties participating in it. For how is it that, in the face of a deep crisis severely damaging South Africa’s international reputation, it was none of the political parties and their public representatives setting the agenda on the day, or on the migration issue in general? First there was the June 30 protest date itself — set not by a
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