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I write the way a go-kart driver would drive a Formula 1 car, without ever having driven a standard front-wheel-drive manual hatchback.

During the entire time that state capture was unfolding, in many instances, Parliament sat idly and failed to hold the executive to account. Siviwe Gwarube writes that the speaker of Parliament is once again ibluntly delaying dealing with the findings of the Zondo Commission report.

Parliament is currently considering what is arguably the single most important piece of legislation since the dawn of democracy, writes One South Africa Movement's Mudzuli Rakhivhane.

The enemy within: Zweli Mkhize – an ally and a lieutenant – is Cyril Ramaphosa's acid test Zweli Mkhize's star is rapidly on the wane. The health minister, who has presided over a Covid-19 strategy that can be termed anything from stuttering to disastrous (and that's being generous), should be a dead man walking. Based purely on his department's poor performance over the past year, he should already have been dismissed. As of Thursday, thanks to the department's best efforts, a little more than one million South Africans have been inoculated against the coronavirus.  Recent revelations b...

Wits University professor Ivor Sarakinsky says it is unlikely that suspended African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Ace Magashule will apologise for sending party president Cyril Ramaphosa a suspension letter. The ANC national executive committee (NEC) ordered Magashule to apologise for his actions of serving the letter. Ramaphosa made the announcement on Monday as he spelt out the outcome of the party’s three-day special national executive meeting. Speaking to Radio Islam, Sarakinsky says Magashule’s has a “game plan” to push the buttons of the ANC. “Probably the game pl...