Listening to John Steenhuisen and the Democratic Alliance’s utterances in recent times, you can be forgiven for thinking that we are back in the time of PW Botha and the Apartheid government.
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At this point I nearly choked on the apple I was eating. “He didn’t just say ‘his mother’ did he?” I wondered aloud. But oh yes, my dear readers, yes he did.
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Even if he felt that his concerns were not taken seriously, he had no right to publicly accuse his host country (South Africa) of something so political and inflammatory that it had dire implications for the country’s economic well-being.
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Of course, a lot has happened since that joyful day 29 years ago when Madiba was inaugurated. Much of it has not been good, and I often think how heartbroken Madiba would have been about the state of the country if he was still alive today.
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The independents might not make a gigantic difference when it comes to the overall political landscape, but their voices will be a welcome change in the otherwise stale and - in the word of Malema - increasingly boring world of politics.
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Those working with the President are tasked to protect him and his office by giving good advice and heading off mistakes before they become public. It is clear that more often than not the ball is being dropped by those close to Ramaphosa.
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Almost all democratic countries around the world allow people to apply for permanent residence once they’ve been in that country legally for 60 months. The Minister of Home Affairs has argued that this was never the case for those on the ZEP, but the question is: why not?
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Like Brene, I have zero interest in the lazy, nonsensical and misogynist comments of cowardly people and I won’t respond to them. However, sometimes I find in the comments some broader themes which do interest me…
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If the ANC wants to attract 20% of these white voters, they will have to convince over 620 000 white voters to vote for them….Well, that ain’t going to happen.
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