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28 June 2022 - While pitting constitutional democracies and capitalism against Marxist-inspired ideologies, the last Cold War slowed South Africa’s political ...

Dialogue won't bring consensus - The Citizen

The proposed national dialogue is the latest rebranding of one of the great mirages of South African politics: the search for consensus.

8 April 2022 - “Since the requirements for a national state of disaster to be declared in terms of the Disaster Management Act are no longer met, Cabinet has ...

11 February 2022 - While the country digests the reports of the Zondo Commission, detailing how the carcass of the state was carved up under the so-called ...

Dlamini-Zuma and IEC sabotage Constitutional Court – IRR

4 August 2021 - Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s proclamation yesterday of 27 October as the date for the next municipal elections – despite no section of the ...

3 August 2020 - So. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $4.3 billion loan in “emergency assistance” to help the South African government ...

Don’t leave electoral reform on backburner – IRR

While the Government of National Unity (GNU), and South Africa as a whole, face many pressing challenges, the need for electoral reform must not be forgotten, ...

16 March 2022 - ‘Summa pia gratia nostra conservando corpora et cutodita, de gente fera Normannica nos libera, quae nostra vastat, Deus, regna.’ This line from ...

Don’t sign NHI Bill into law, IRR urges Ramaphosa

The IRR has petitioned the president not to sign the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill of 2019 (the Bill) into law, but rather to refer it back to the ...

Dreams, myths and realities of Cape Independence: Terence Corrigan - Biznews

I was raised in Natal (as it was then), a province regarded in the context of the segregated politics of the time as different. Its white population was ...