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Hardly two days before the Ides of March, another former president Thabo Mbeki, in his conversation session at Unisa, foresaw a government with lesser power and NGOs dedicating terms. According to him, SA is heading to a cliff, and he boldly predicted that the May 29 election won't bring forth charges.

The ANC are a cunning lot. They target another win from the upcoming elections, focusing on two key areas, crime and electricity.

The outpatients department at the state-run South Rand Hospital in Johannesburg is very busy. It serves many people from many areas, including lots of new estates.

There are political parties which parade themselves as representatives of the disadvantaged but you hardly hear their leaders raising parliamentary debates about the slow pace of service delivery.

In the less than 60 days, SA will be going to the national and provincial elections. These elections will be contested by more than 50 political parties nationally. It is without doubt that this will be the most highly contested elections since the dawn of our democracy in 1994.

It is quite regrettable that, in the 21st century, we still have politicians of unredeemed human nature, who are so insensitive to learn from the catastrophic results of these Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings in 1945. Any sensible world leader would fearfully dislike to use an atomic bomb.

As I watched what was playing out on TV this weekend, with ANC and MK Party supporters said to be pointing spears at each other, I wondered how something that started with the liberation of black people could end up turned into black-on-black violence.

In many countries there is a presumption of innocence until proven guilty so often a suspect's face is blurred, however the police in Murrieta, a city in California, have taken the novel approach of using Lego heads to hide faces in any of their releases.

Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi says the opposition to National Health Insurance (NHI) is baffling. What is baffling is to have a government that assumes that a country with 32.1% unemployment rate can successfully implement and sustain universal healthcare coverage (UHC) when countries with a 3,5% unemployment rate are working very hard to deal with challenges facing their UHC services.

Global leaders are playing a deadly game of nuclear roulette with their utterances on the deadly conflicts that are now raging across the world.