James Nkambule’s broadside against the Chairperson of the ANC in the Province of Mpumalanga, Comrade D.D Mabuza and other comrades in his article: The ANC, The ANC, In The Belly of the Beast, December 2008, betrays a bitter and vindictive comrade who ...
Read More »ANC: In the belly of a beast
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 ...
Read More »The revolution is on trial
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 ...
Read More »Tell no lies, claim no easy victories
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 ...
Read More »Shades of grey – A response to Gardee
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 ...
Read More »The hunter is hunted
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 ...
Read More »Makwetla’s cabinet reshuffle – why and what impact?
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 ...
Read More »Hugging the hyena – A guide to Mpumalanga horse-trading politics
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 ...
Read More »Greening a very green province
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 ...
Read More »State of the Province: People’s needs versus golfers’ greed
This morning, Premier Thabang Makwetla will be presenting his State Of the Province and as usual there are lots of expectations from the ordinary people of Mpumalanga who struggle to survive on a day to day basis. These multitudes will be ...
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