Candidates are missing, but not the old guard
If you are lucky to spot a poster with the face of a ward candidate, there isn’t much information about them to help you make up your mind., writes S'thembiso Msomi.
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If you are lucky to spot a poster with the face of a ward candidate, there isn’t much information about them to help you make up your mind., writes S'thembiso Msomi.
If the state does not convict killers, our elections will be set amid funerals, writes S'thembiso Msomi.
In an ideal world, municipal elections are about local issues affecting specific communities, with little consideration of national politics, says S'thembiso Msomi.
A lesson from the ashes on who not to vote for 25 July 2021 - 00:02 This is us, or more precisely the calibre of the people we elected to represent us. When confronted with a major crisis or imminent danger, our leaders would rather keep themselves busy resolving sophisticated concepts that have nothing to do with the price of bread. Around 2011 and 2012, in the aftermath of a global financial crisis that left our economy weak and growing at a disappointing rate and caused a massive increase in the army of the unemployed, our leading party preoccupied itself with an unnecessary debate ...
The only way the ANC will change is by splitting in two 18 July 2021 - 00:02 On Friday July 9, the day a section of the N3 highway had to be closed following the torching of trucks and other acts of violence, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered an important speech to his party's national executive committee (NEC). It was an address that one suspects he hoped would help to set the troubled ruling party on the "renewal" path he has been talking about ever since he became the ANC president... This article is reserved for Sunday Times subscribers. A subscription gives you full digital acc...