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            <title>The Health of the People Must be the Supreme Law</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of citizens, must be the supreme law. He, of course, was talking about health in both its narrow and broader sense. He was talking about both the physical health of the people as well as the social and economic well-being of citizens. Unfortunately, some among us, usually in defence of opening the economy, seem to think that adopting Cicero’s logic is about electing to have citizens dying of hunger when there is an insistence that health and safety must be the primary logic which inform economic decisions. In my view, the debate about health versus the economy is both a farce and a non-debate.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In its strategy and tactics documents, the African National Congress (ANC) talks about ‘the people’ as the key motive force of what the ruling party refers to as the National Democratic Revolution. According to the liberation movement model, the people and the liberation movement are one. The people are the liberation movement, and the liberation movement is the people. The liberation movement will always work in the interests of the people, and the people will always make choices that are in the best interests of the liberation movement. Because of this, the liberation movement will, post-liberation, win every election, since the people are the key motive force of the revolution, and they and the liberation movement are Siamese twins who are tied at the hip. Until 2009, this seemed to be true.]]></description>
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            <title>ANC will come out  tops – and here’s why</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Apparently there is a general election on May 8. Were it not for the so-called service delivery protests, one would have forgotten that South Africans are going to the polls in a few days. I refer to the rebellion of the poor as ‘so-called’ service delivery protests because the term is, at best, a partial representation of what is going on, and, at worst, a misrepresentation of the reasons behind the rebellion. Some will quibble with the use of the term ‘rebellion' because too many among us, especially in the media, have bought into the idea that the protests are either a product of the manipulation of the poor and stupid by the African National Congress (ANC) to divert attention from its failures, amount to attention-seeking by poor communities who are using the election as a weapon to blackmail the ANC into delivering on the promise of a better life for all, or are just inexplicable unrest and disturbance of the peace that have come out of the blue.]]></description>
            <author>Aubrey Matshiqi</author>
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            <title>Post-Sona blues</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2019 State of the Nation address (Sona) will be remembered for two things in the main: the anger with which some social partners greeted the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that State-owned electricity utility Eskom would be unbundled into three independent entities and the accusation by Congress of the People (Cope) leader Mosiua Lekota that Ramaphosa sold out during apartheid. If we  restrict ourselves to the four corners of each page of Sona, as speeches go, the 2019 Sona was quite impressive. If we limit ourselves to nothing but the promises and rhetorical commitments that were made, South Africa under Ramaphosa is going to be the land of milk, honey and prosperity. The dogs of poverty, unemployment and inequality, with their tails between the legs, will be forced to flee into oblivion.]]></description>
            <author>Aubrey Matshiqi</author>
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            <title>ANC manifesto: we’ve heard that all before</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Before I start, let me say this: I have spent the past two days thinking about what to say about the election manifesto of the African National Congress (ANC). After reading the ANC’s manifesto, I thought of Duma Gqubule, who, referring to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic stimulus plan, said it was like an old salad with a fresh dressing. The manifesto also reminded me of a Bulgarian friend who talked about a new brothel with old prostitutes. I think you catch my drift. The manifesto, notwithstanding the fact that I am a teetotaler, is like a Sauvignon blanc that is in a new bottle but tastes like vinegar. In short, I have heard it all before. The ANC says its manifesto is about “transforming the economy to serve all people, through interventions that promote a developmental growth path”. The ruling party also promises to work with “labour, business and communities to create many new jobs and ensure that all workers can earn a decent living”.]]></description>
            <author>Aubrey Matshiqi</author>
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            <title>A reflection on 2018</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Almost a year ago, Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec national conference of the ruling party. Two months later, he became the President of the republic. His election was greeted with a great sense of euphoria, optimism and hope. The end of former President Jacob Zuma’s darkness at noon was declared a  new dawn by Ramaphosa and his disciples inside and outside the ruling party. While Ramaphosa has the subjective interest of positioning himself as the antidote to Zuma’s ignominious reign, and while he  is seen as an embodiment of both his new dawn and new order, objectively, the expectation that Ramaphosa should, somehow, have turned Zuma’s solar eclipse into a new dawn in the short period prior to the 2019 general election was always going to be unrealistic – both because of objective factors beyond his control and his subjective weaknesses as a leader.]]></description>
            <author>Aubrey Matshiqi</author>
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            <title>State capture – again</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In my last interview with polity.org, I argued that there is an Askari element in the African National Congress (ANC). This Askari element consists of members and leaders of the ANC who, since the days of the liberation struggle, have been part of the project to destroy the ANC and, thereby, prevent the coming into being of a postapartheid society that is the antithesis of our colonial and apartheid past. I invoked this Askari element as part of an attempt to provide a multidimensional explanation for what is popularly, and maybe dishonestly, referred to as State capture. In other words, I am trying to interest the reader in what I believe should be a much broader conception of the phenomenon and tendency of State capture.]]></description>
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            <title>Facilitators of State capture in SA</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The State capture commission of inquiry is under way. The picture that is beginning to emerge is that of a South Africa where, by the time former President Jacob Zuma left the stage, corruption was no longer endemic because it had become systemic. In other words, by the time Zuma was forced to resign, corruption had become the dominant culture in the State. How did we get to this point?]]></description>
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            <title>Land question</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Does South Africa belong to those who live in it, or to those who conquered it? In other words, is land expropriation without compensation constitutionally permissible and, is it possible to expropriate land without compensation, without, the consent of the conquerors? According to the Freedom Charter, “South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white”. Furthermore, the Freedom Charter says: “The land shall be shared among those who work it: Restrictions of land ownership on a racial basis shall be ended, and all the land redivided amongst those who work it, to banish famine and land hunger”.]]></description>
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            <title>Ramaphoria index falling</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This month we are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. I suspect that the country will celebrate more the older Mandela than the young hothead of a militant who became a commander in the armed struggle against white minority rule. To me, the commemoration of the centenary of  Modiba’s birth represents the thin line between celebration and mourning. What will be remembered the most is what many South Africans – particularly those who were victims of apartheid colonialism – ...]]></description>
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