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Inkatha Freedom Party leader Velenkosini Hlabisa waves to supporters outside the Imbaliyamazulu Primary School voting station during a voter registration campaign. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP

As the Elephants head for Moses Mabhida, the ANC’s firepools come home to roost

Change starts … just now, as Roger Jardine’s funders pull the plug

  • Eyaaz
4 min read

South Africa’s 2024 political reality is bleak

The elections offer us the choice between the liberal/conservative group that offers no real benefits for the poor and working-class, and a populist, authoritarian form of kleptocratic nationalism

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

Gaza needs John Steenhuisen’s journalism

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  • Khaya Koko
1 min read
True colours: The ANC is rapidly losing support and unless it turns the ship around fast, the turnout at next year’s poll is likely to be low, the writer says. Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Getty Images

Voters want an ANC they can trust

South Africans love the ruling party – they just don’t like it at the moment – and the opposition parties appear to have learnt nothing in 30 years

  • Umamah Bakharia
7 min read
Businessman Roger Jardine is the leader of the new political party Change Starts Now, which is allegedly funded by a small group of very rich people. Photo supplied

Democracy sold down the river

The Change Starts Now project, which is backed by billionaires and fronted by former banker Roger Jardine, is a top-down attempt by powerful people to win political clout

  • Des Erasmus
9 min read
ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramokgopa: ANC top seven hope to convince Msimang to return to the party

National executive committee members may thwart plans by the ANC top brass to bring former ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang back

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang was consulted on launch of new party by Roger Jardine, but was not asked to join it

ANC stonewalling on ridding its election list of people named in the state capture commission was the last straw for Msimang, who then quit the party

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
DA leader John Steenhuisen. Photo: Victoria O’Regan/Getty Images

Is Steenhuisen out as moonshot pact seeks new front man?

The Multi-Party Charter’s funders are said to be looking for a new figurehead for the coalition’s election campaign

  • Lizeka Tandwa
5 min read
Businessman Roger Jardine is the leader of the new political party Change Starts Now, which is allegedly funded by a small group of very rich people. Photo supplied

ANC veteran Mavuso Msimang set to join businessman Roger Jardine’s political movement?

The MK veteran said on Friday, however, that he would not join any political party

  • Lizeka Tandwa
9 min read