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He’s back !! (Julius Malema that is…)

ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has blamed the courts for the ruling party’s defeat in several wards in by-elections in the Western Cape, Beeld newspaper reported on Friday. “The judge voted on behalf of the people against the ANC,” Malema told a crowd of about 7 000 people in Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape….

ANC will lose two-thirds majority in 2009 elections!

I am basing the above statement on the fact that COPE have claimed a paid up membership of 480 000 people. Even if some of these came from the existing opposition parties, the law of averages means that the majority would have come from the ruling party. With opposition political parties requiring just over 600…

Malema tells Zuma exactly who is in charge……!!!!

The article below says it all “who is wagging the dog now?”Effectively Julius Malema and his cronies played such a big role in the shake-up at Polokwane that they now need pay back. How they are going to take this pay back is yet to be seen, but certainly the ANC as the umbrella body,…

DA copying Obama in logo only?????

The new logo has really been met with a variety of comments. My view is that it does resemble, too closely for my liking, the Obama campaign logo. I would have thought that there would have been a complete disclosure around this to try to stem the negative sentiment that was bound to come. I…

Voter Registration numbers up! Good news for the opposition

There is some good news on the horizon for the opposition politics in South Africa. If the IEC numbers are to be believed then some 500 000 new voters registered this weekend. This gives us a far bigger base from which to draw support and many people who are registering are doing so as they…

Astringent Leadership will define the victor

The mark of a leader in troubled times is defined by one word, Astringency. I must confess that I did not know this word until this morning after reading an article, by Michael Kinsley, in the TIME magazine. Astringency means telling people what they don’t want to hear and leading them to where they don’t…

Zuma on land reform – electioneering or true commitment?

Once again the issue of land reform is being pulled out just before elections with Zuma saying that we need to intensify the land reform process. This is really interesting given that the ANC led government has been in power since 1994 and in all of that time have only managed to acquire 4% of…

ANC wields the axe

The ANC will demonstrate once again it’s intolerance to opposition, under the Zuma faction influence. As we see Lekota and Mluleki George effectively losing their memberships of the party for speaking out against it. Now many will say that Lekota and George must leave because they are speaking out against the party, but I believe…

Splinter in the ANC, becoming a plank??

As I sit in the airport lounge, waiting to fly back to Cape Town, there is breaking news that Mosiuoa Lekota, has announced a press conference, at the Prime Media buildings to make an announcement that will dramatically affect the political landscape of the country. By the time I land this is like to be…

A splinter in the ANC’s eye!

Gwede Mantashe is quoted as calling the rumour split a splinter. I am not sure if this is to try to down play the fact that some of the top leadership of the ANC appear to be moving to form a new political party. Clearly the talk of the imminent formation of a new party…

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