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The DA have demanded that ANC Ministers, associates, and spouses pay their own way after spending R45 million on luxury flights since 2014.

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Secretary for Defence Gladys Kudjoe. defenceWeb’s first major foray into the world of virtual conferencing takes place tomorrow – Tuesday, 25 May – with more than 270 signed up to hear views and opinions from some top people in the South African aerospace and defence sectors. The headline attraction in terms of speakers lined up for the inaugural defenceWebinar is Gladys Sonto Kudjoe, who took over from long-serving Sam Gulube as Secretary for Defence i...

  The death of Nelson Mandela, at age 95 on 5 December 2013, brings genuine sadness. As his health deteriorated over the past six months, many asked the more durable question:  how did he change South Africa ? Given how unsatisfactory life is for so many in society, the follow-up question is,  how much room was there for Mandela to maneuver ? South Africa now lurches from crisis to crisis, and so many of us are tempted to remember the Mandela years – especially the first democratic governm...

Share The University of Pretoria (UP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a report that looks at the role that business and the private sector played during South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. Titled Business in the Time of Transition (BiTSA), the project began in 2019 when the ILO and UP’s Centre for Mediation in Africa in the Department of Political Sciences embarked on a project to capture this story. The project has now culminated in a repor...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - South African soldiers at a medal parade in DR Congo. Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for a professional public service in his latest Presidential Newsletter has drawn wide response, including from a respected defence analyst who takes the history of South Africa’s democratic national defence force as an object lesson. Going back to the early days of democracy in 1994, Helmoed Heitman points to Joe Modise, the first defence minister of the democratic era. “He sp...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. “Our democratic Constitution is the product of years of sacrifice and struggle. Many South Africans endured great pain and hardship, and many lost their lives, so that we could live in a democracy where all may enjoy equal rights. The values, principles and rights contained in the Constitution are neither trivial nor abstract.” – President Cyril Ramaphosa, President’s Newsletter, 22 February 2021. Somewhere there is a photograp...

JUDITH FEBRUARY: SA’s electoral system is weakened by the lack of accountability opinion Given the daily dose of the Zondo commission into state capture and what seems like endless stories of the failure by government to deliver basic services, the accountability link between citizens and their public representatives appears to be seriously compromised. Political parties themselves also appear unable to muster the internal democratic capacity to hold their members to account as they should. W...

In the light of the recent Constitutional Court judgement declaring the current Electoral Act unconstitutional, the Inclusive Society Institute (ISI) embarked on a process to design a potential new electoral model for South Africa. The institute appointed an expert panel, convened by Mr. Roelf Meyer, to undertake the work and mandated the panel to design an electoral model that will meaningfully give effect to the judgement, respect the boundaries set out in the Constitution, retain pro- portion...

Adobe Stock images; Globe staff illustration The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 revealed a country more deeply and dangerously divided than many understood. Thousands of the most ardent, radical, and violent supporters of Donald Trump attacked the seat of American democracy and sought to overthrow the results of the presidential election. These shocking acts of violence and insurrection, stoked by the commander in chief and supported by a large number of Republicans, would leave five A...

PREMIUM! NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 03: People hold a pro-Trump rally on October 3, 2020 in the borough of Staten Island in New York City. The event, which was organised weeks ago by the the Staten Island Republican Party, encouraged people to vote Republican and to pray for the health of President Donald Trump who fell ill with COVID-19. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP This week’s brazen storming of Capitol Hill – the Unite...