Sipho Seepe

GNU seeks to normalise the ANC’s historic political setback

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The notion that the performance of the so-called GNU can be assessed in 100 days is misplaced and mischievous; '100 days’ mark has no basis in law or our Constitution, ...

The glitter of the Zondo Commission is fast fading

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Chief Justice Raymond Zondo hands over the final judicial commission on the state capture report to President Cyril Ramaphosa. The decision by the Middelburg Specialised ...

Shivambu shifts the Left’s political centre of gravity towards the MK Party

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Floyd Shivambu and Julius Malema at a press briefing in 2020. The two were regarded as the Siamese political twins of the Left. ...

Victory strengthens Cyril Ramaphosa but Phala Phala matter puts Paul Mashatile in pole position to become next president

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Picture: ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, party national chairperson Gwede Mantashe and deputy president Paul Mashatile. Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency ...

Reclaiming people’s power a defining moment for ANC branches

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Graphic: Timothy Alexander/African News Agency (ANA)By Professor Sipho Seepe Recent developments in our body politic such as the never ending inter and intra party ...

The judiciary has become a threat to our democracy

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Picture: Timothy Bernard African News Agency (ANA) - Office of the Chief justice of South Africa in Midrand. By Professor Sipho SeepeIn what can best be described ...

The ghost of patriarchy haunts South Africa’s ruling party

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Graphic: Timothy Alexander/African News Agency (ANA) Pictures: Itumeleng English/ African News Agency (ANA), Reuters - Since its founding on January 8, 1912, the ...

South Africa: ANC in dire need of liberation from destructive path

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Graphic: Timothy Alexander/African News Agency - Iconic ANC leaders (from left) Chief Albert Luthuli, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela maintained unity within the ...

Untransformed media a protector of minority interests

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Picture: Mike Hutchings/Reuters - A protester holds a placard demanding justice for apartheid-era atrocities outside the state memorial service for former South ...

ANC: Unity forged in struggle, destroyed by broken promises

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Graphic: Timothy Alexander / African News Agency (ANA)By Professor Sipho SeepeThe long-awaited pronouncement by the KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial executive committee ...

South Africa: ‘Insurrection’ a ruse designed to protect government

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Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency (ANA) - Scores of people looted a warehouse in Briardene, Durban, South Africa during the protests in July 2021. ...

Time for ANC old guard to step aside

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Graphic: Timothy Alexander / African News Agency (ANA)By Professor Sipho SeepeThe outcomes of the ANC leadership tussle are largely predictable. You could easily ...

New rules entrench Ramaphosa’s false political morality lecture

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Picture: Thobile Mathonsi/African News Agency (ANA) – The ANC election rules should be seen as the party’s attempt to manage public perceptions, says the writer. ...

Another deceitful performance by a governing party in crisis

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Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency(ANA) - The ANC's 6th National Policy Conference in Nasrec. By Professor Sipho SeepeGEORGE Orwell famously remarked that ...

Betraying Mandela’s revolutionary legacy

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Picture: Reuters - Nelson Mandela with his lifetime comrade and former ANC president, Oliver Tambo, in January 1992. Any celebration of Mandela that does not address ...