We mustn’t forget that apartheid SA was a deeply menacing and intimidating place. The security police were everywhere. Ideas were dangerous, writes Peter Bruce.
The difference in the response to rapidly rising prices (inflation) and increasingly unavailable electricity between SA and Botswana is stark, writes Peter Bruce.
No-one who watched the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial conference vote last weekend for an entirely pro-Jacob Zuma leadership, and then vote to scrap President Cyril Ramaphosa’s hard-fought step-aside rule, should doubt for a moment that this is a party in a death spiral. It is to politics what Eskom is to energy.