As Blade Nzimande moves on from his position as general secretary of the SA Communist Party (SACP), it is time for an assessment of his 24 years on top of the party. First elected to the post in 1998, he is the only SA politician to remain a key player in a political formation since the days of.
On Freedom Day, it is worth remembering that our freedom of expression is both valuable and vulnerable. We cannot take it for granted, argues Anton Harber.
This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it has cost South Africa?
The development of a National Security Strategy could provide a democratic opening to confront the mess that the country’s national security institutions have become to rise above the mess just for a while and develop a more positive vision for the future. The development of a National Se.
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