South Africa has a liberal social democratic Constitution, but no truly liberal social democratic political party. Until liberal social democratic politics can sever itself from the ANC, and those last liberal breadcrumbs in the DA can gather themselves up and leave the alliance, South Africa s.
Our book
Rogues’ Gallery shows that corruption in South Africa has existed for at least as long as our history has been recorded. By focusing on a dozen skelms – starting with Willem Adriaan van der Stel in 1700 and ending with Jacob Zuma – we discovered that corruption is part of our national DNA. (On the positive side, so is whistle-blowing.)
Given that the plunder has, at times, been of biblical proportions, we thought it might be useful to come up with 10 Commandments of Corruption.
Thou shalt gift thyself land and a house at the government’s expense
With Nkandla and its firepool so fresh in our minds, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that JZ’s KwaZulu-Natal bolthole was somehow unique. Sadly, all 13 chapters of our book feature at least one government-funded personal pleasure dome.
The next DCEU movie coming to theaters is The Flash.
After making his debut in Justice League, Ezra Miller makes his return as Barry Allen in a movie directed by Andy Muschietti (Stephen King’s It).
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However, when Flash returned to the future, everything had changed.
Bruce Wayne died as a child and his father Thomas took on the role of a violent Batman. His mother Martha became the Joker.
The Flash had to figure out how to fix the problems he caused by changing the past. What resulted was the reboot of the DC Universe.
On Monday, 26 April 2021, the ANC ramped up the rhetoric surrounding the changing of the name of William Nicol Drive with party Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte leading a group on to the side of the road in a show of support for the change of name. But even here, the divisions in our country were on display with the presence of some Ace Magashule-supporting MKMVA members. Duarte, as a result, was placed in a position of having to state that those in camouflage did not “represent our aspirations”.
The philosopher RG Collingwood suggested in his book, “
The Principles of Art”, that road names and statues were examples of “magic”. He equated them to a rain or war dance. Nobody, he argued, really believes that a war dance will bring you victory they give emotional confidence. Likewise, nobody believes that rain dances will bring rain they are community-building exercises.