Ziwaphi Relentless quest for the truth

Slain speaker of the Mbombela local municipality Jimmy Mohlala was assassinated a week before he was to testify against suspended municipal manager Jacob Dladla. Mohlala (44) was scheduled to testify on January 12 about Dladla’s refusal to implement 361 council ...

My! My! My! How wrong we were! Barely three months after this now obviously empty rhetorical hogwash, the opposite is happening. The rate and scale of the brutality of the “Show Ground victors”, against their fellow ANC members, whose cardinal ...

…..”All lobby groups are disbanded. Let us all unite behind the ANC. No one must be victimized for supporting this candidate or not supporting that candidate. Our task is to build a united ANC!” These [words] formed a part of a ...

Debate over the question of preference on leadership is as old as the writing of history itself. Agreement has never been reached easily where there is an existence of such a debate but of principal importance is the manner in which ...

Had it not been at the insistence of the ANCYL PWC, I ordinarily would not have  commented on the input by comrades Godrich Gardee and James Nkambule. As the PWC needed some kind of an intervention, a few questions had to be ...

The input by Cde Ahmed Godrich Gardee on the positions and pronouncements of the present leadership of the ANCYL is quite interesting. Interesting in the sense that, reading it from a sick bed in my native village, brought a sense of ...

The articles in various local and national newspapers with screaming headlines “Makwetla must go!” cannot go unchallenged to let the cat out of the bag. If the Youth League in general, and in Mpumalanga particularly, would decree what can be spoken and ...

Very often socio-political and economical analysts face a difficult task of having to analyse events, situations, pronouncements and or decisions taken by other people without having an insight of why such decisions are taken. Sometimes we get accused of trying to be ...

In March 1984, during a press conference, the former President of the African National Congress (ANC) Oliver Reginal Tambo, was asked by a journalist Martin Bailey (The Observer) about Mozambuque’s decision to sign the Nkomati Accord with the apartheid government. The ...

MPUMALANGA is a very green province, you just have to cast your eyes around you to see a green blanket of trees, shrubs and grass. The province is truly blessed with fresh air breeze coming from all the leaves that are ...