There are a lot of unanswered questions. Why were transactions done in cash? Why not bank the cash? What happened after it was stolen? Most importantly how much of all of this did the President know at the time?
Read MoreSo let me put this challenge to the Minister of Health, MECs, and officials: Please go in your personal capacity and quietly sit for a while in the emergency rooms of our state hospitals. Then ask yourself if you are doing your job good enough.
Read MoreWe, the people of South Africa, deserve a government that listens to the people. However, we also need a government that will listen all the time and not only when Twitter blows up after a stupid decision.
Read MoreIf the government really wants to celebrate the flag they should be putting people and their needs first. That is after all what the flag stands for - not some vanity project that will cost the country a fortune.
Read MoreI do not believe that anyone who wants to silence criticism – even if they delete the statement the next day – can ever be presidential material.
Read MoreAs much as I agree that the ANC is in dire straits, it is hard to see an alternative for the country with the current configuration of parties in our country. The time is (over) ripe for a new political party… but is that in the cards?
Read MoreWe have arrived at a point where we have to take a wider look at our world and what we have come to accept as normal – such as our current economic system.
Read MoreSo let me put this challenge to the Minister of Health, MECs and officials: Please go in your personal capacity – without the big car, protections officers and fancy clothes, and quietly sit for a while in the emergency rooms of our state hospitals. Then ask yourself if you are doing your job good enough.
Read MoreWe need to remember that it was this kind of “us” versus “them” (the foreigners) narrative that led to the genocide in Rwanda. If we’re not careful, it will happen again, this time- perhaps- in our own country.
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