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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: Can we truly keep celebrating Freedom Day while things fall apart?

| Apr 2025
Polity.org.za
When I floated my “false dawn” analogy to senior scribe Lucas “Styles” Ledwaba, a man whose pen still carries the weight of thunder, he offered no comment, no acknowledgement. Instead, he sent me a track: “Mickey Mouse Freedom” by the late reggae maestro Lucky Dube, a man, the irony of ironies, gunned down by the very criminals our liberation movement promised to vanquish.
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OPINION | Bhekisisa Mncube: Is South Africa ready for a white president?

| Apr 2025
News24
The unresolved National Question, beyond race, also encompasses class and gender dimensions. Thus, it becomes a cocktail that serves as an ever-present undercurrent in contemporary South African politics, frequently obscured by the more visible and urgent crises of rising inequality, poverty, and land hunger.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: Yes, Mr Trump, bad things are happening in South Africa

| May 2025
Daily Maverick
Even our serenity was stolen — the right to hear birdsong without surveillance, to wade in the river without suspicion, to watch mountains in stillness without fear of displacement. It was the freedom to laugh, dance, sit beneath a tree, and hear the soft, jubilant racket of children at play, lost forever.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — the oracle has delivered four post-Cyril scenarios

| May 2025
Daily Maverick
You see, my leader, fictional renewal is easy. It only requires slogans, Instagram-ready images and conference resolutions that gather dust before the ink dries. Real rebirth? That is different. It is messy, bloody and humbling. It is about scraping the rot from the marrow, reconnecting not with conference delegates and caterers but with street committees, stokvels, minibus taxi ranks, informal traders and, yes, the tired grandmothers queuing for social grants.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: GNU – No Value Added

| May 2025
Daily Maverick
Nine months into this much-fancied GNU, there has been no joy. Only the unrelenting weeping and gnashing of teeth for the “leader of society”, the African National Congress (ANC).
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: Can we truly keep celebrating Freedom Day while things fall apart?

| Apr 2025
Daily Maverick
I wish to pause and invite every citizen, from tavern philosophers to conservative podcasters, progressive YouTubers and TikTok pundits to reflect deeply on the future of our homeland.
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Mr President you sold us a false New Dawn as we black people congregate at the graveyard to bury our own

| Apr 2025
Daily Maverick
My leader, I hate being a bearer of bad news while you are fighting on all fronts, with the Helen Zille Infantry Battalion on the right and Uncle Sam’s mood swings on the left.
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South Africa: Cape Town, A City Under Fire

| Apr 2025
Climate Change Writers
Overall, the City of Cape Town says its fire teams have responded to over 13,000 incidents between October 2023 and January 2024. This marked an increase of more than 10% from the previous year
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GNU Budget Crisis: ANC And DA Need To Grow Up, Fast, writes Bhekisisa Mncube

| Apr 2025
The Bulrushes
A minority government will neither restore investor confidence nor renew the “people’s contract” because such a formation is inherently fragile, heightening anxiety each time the National Assembly considers a vote of no confidence in the President.
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Professor William Gumede’s Rhetoric Undermines GNU Partners, writes Bhekisisa Mncube

| Apr 2025
The Bulrushes
Professor Gumede's opinion piece, ANC failures tarnish its GNU partner (Sunday Times, 30 March 2025), fails the most basic test of public discourse, it makes sweeping claims not supported by evidence and breaks the cardinal rule: play the ball, not the man
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The Human Cost of Climate Disasters

Op-eds
| Apr 2025
Climate Change Writers (4000+ volunteer writers from 140+ countries.) Our mission is to unite a global network of passionate writers dedicated to telling the climate change narrative.
In summary, over the past three years, KwaZulu-Natal has endured multiple flood disasters that have collectively resulted in more than 500 fatalities and displaced tens of thousands. Scientists warn that extreme rainfall events are becoming more frequent as the climate warms, doubling the likelihood of occurrences like the 2022 floods​. Reuters reported in 2022 that the World Weather Attribution group analysed weather data and digital simulations to compare today's climate with that of the pre-Industrial Revolution era in the late 1800s. "The results showed that an extreme rainfall episode such as this one [the 2022 floods] can now be expected to occur approximately once every 20 years," a study showed.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: The Trump Chronicles — common sense flies out the window

Columns
| Apr 2025
Daily Maverick
​In his so-called “Liberation speech”, President Trump imposed a 10% tariff on imports from uninhabited territories, including Australia’s Heard and McDonald islands — remote outposts with no permanent human habitation, populated mainly by penguins and seals. Trump’s actions reflect a romantic crusade against imaginary trade villains, fully aligned with his “Make America Great Again” (Maga) philosophy, which continues to thrive on post-truth narratives.
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Opinion | Whiteness and its paradox

Columns
| Mar 2025
The Witness
I joined the chorus, standing by my principled view that all South AfriCANs, whites included, must help rebuild this country. After all, I’m a poster child of non-racialism
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Opinion | The circus continues

Columns
| Mar 2025
The Witness
This latest memo, grandly titled the Washington Memorandum, is the handiwork of a group of Afrikaners plying their anti-South African trade/tirade under the banner of the Solidarity Movement — a club of ultra-right-wing crusaders led by AfriForum and Solidarity.
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Washington memorandum: a hollow plea for privilege from South Africa’s discontented AfriCAN’Ts

Columns
| Mar 2025
Daily Maverick
Leading the delegation to the US were AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel, Solidarity’s chairperson Flip Buys, Dr Dirk Hermann and Jaco Kleynhans — four men on a mission to rewrite history, whitewash privilege, and beg King Trump for a pat on the head. The only “humanitarian crisis” here is that some want to have their apartheid cake and eat it too.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — I need to reconfigure my life, ANC and MK style

Columns
| Feb 2025
Daily Maverick
But now, let’s unpack this bureaucratic labyrinth. Before the convenor can convene the top six, he must first consult — or rather, convene — his two deputy convenors. From there, the deputy convenors relay the message to the coordinator, who must then convene his two deputy coordinators. Their task? Coordinating the logistics of hosting the top six, who will, in turn, refer their resolution to the full 67-member leadership for a marathon meeting lasting no less than 24 hours.
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Opinion | Bureaucratic madness

Columns
| Feb 2025
The Witness
"I need to reconfigure my life, ANC and MK style."
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Opinion | Leadership sale

Columns
| Feb 2025
The Witness
I couldn’t contain my mirth upon reading the Luthuli House press statement that the reconfiguration (what’s that?) of the ANC provincial executive committees (PECs) in Gauteng and KZN had gone ahead, blending the present with the old guard, veterans if you will. They will govern under adult supervision, like kindergarteners on a school trip — watched, warned, and never fully trusted to cross the street alone.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — Roll up! Roll up! It’s the great political party fire sale!

Columns
| Feb 2025
Daily Maverick
Dear reader, what’s truly on sale isn’t just news subscriptions or contributions to sustain our beleaguered free press — it is political leadership itself at bargain-bin prices. Buy one, get a whole faction free! Yet, holding power to account can’t be discounted.
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Strained US-SA relations: What’s really at the crux of it?

Columns
| Feb 2025
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Bhekisisa Mncube | Strained US-SA relations: What’s really at the crux of it?

Columns
| Feb 2025
News24
The farce, of course, is that Leon fails to see the forest for the trees. The AfriForum-Solidariteit are habitual liars - peddling fairytales as fact with the enthusiasm of modern-day false prophets like Shepherd Bushiri, the self-proclaimed "miracle worker" and fugitive from justice.
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Opinion | Hands off Duduzile Zuma!

Columns
| Feb 2025
The Witness
"Did Jacob Zuma’s baby girl incite violence? Really now? uGal’s entire professional résumé consists of sitting next to uBaba during press conferences, flashing a rehearsed smile on cue."
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — we see you, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla

Columns
| Feb 2025
Daily Maverick
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Daddy’s Gal now boasts a new title: ‘Commander’ Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla. One can only assume she is currently deep in the bush undergoing advanced emoji warfare training in preparation for Zuma Riots 2.0.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — I need a hearing aid to understand Sona

Columns
| Feb 2025
Daily Maverick
Still, my local mole swears you even got the Democratic Alliance (DA) to clap for you – not once, not twice, but three times. It is alleged – and I cannot confirm because my mole’s Wi-Fi was on a go-slow – that the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) did not raise a single point of order. Meanwhile, the uMkhonto Wesizwe party (MK) sat quietly, behaving better than a Grade R class on their first school day.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — deal with the land question, because the ‘barbarians are at the gate’

Columns
| Feb 2025
Daily Maverick
If the land question remains unresolved, it will, irrespective of who replaces the ANC in the next poll, result in an Arab Spring scenario. We will see the scenes of the July ‘Zuma’ 2021 riots tenfold.
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2025 SoNA 2.0

Columns
| Feb 2025
Polity,org.za
Meanwhile, the political class—across all parties—is preoccupied with trivialities: bringing the Formula One Grand Prix race to the country, rehabilitating abandoned government buildings, and chasing undocumented foreign nationals, as if any of these will solve the country’s deep-seated land crises.
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Opinion | 2025 Sona 2.0

Columns
| Feb 2025
The Witness
"My leader, the Expropriation Act is 30 years late and will not, in the short term, improve dire land hunger for formal settlements and agriculture among indigenous people."
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Opinion | Renewal? What renewal?

Columns
| Jan 2025
The Witness
Since taking office ages ago, you’ve sung endlessly about ANC renewal. Earlier this month, delivering the January 8 statement, you claimed: “The renewal of the ANC remains the number one priority.”
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: I ask with tears in my eyes, renewal, what renewal?

Columns
| Jan 2025
Daily Maverick
This week, I was meant to wax lyrical about the most important resolution of the ANC, “organisational renewal”, one so vital that it probably deserves a national holiday, a commemorative T-shirt, and a five-hour panel discussion on the SABC. I ask for your indulgence.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: The NHI is almost certain to be dead on arrival

Columns
| Jan 2025
Daily Maverick
Yet, when it comes to health, you seem intent on marching in the opposite direction. You propose nationalising healthcare services, dismantling a multibillion-rand medical aid industry, and effectively hobbling private-sector health providers.
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Opinion | Dead on arrival

Columns
| Jan 2025
The Witness
Peeling back this onion reveals the glorious chaos of government-owned funds. The same folks who can’t manage a piggy bank want to launch a new NHI fund.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: Private healthcare probably saved my life — don’t kill it

Columns
| Jan 2025
Daily Maverick
My leader, I write these hospital chronicles to highlight the sheer scale of resources and speed required to deal with diseases efficiently and effectively. If you destroy medical aid, you will ruin the only functioning part of our healthcare system.
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Opinion | Offline government

Columns
| Dec 2024
The Witness
My leader, I write to discuss the South African Police Service (SAPS) and its “concomitant” failures. The real issue is design-induced failure. For over five years, we endured a jester as Police minister, more interested in watching himself on TV than modernising SAPS’s archaic systems.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — precious little ‘festive season’ cheer from your offline government

Columns
| Dec 2024
Daily Maverick
My leader, I wanted to talk to you about the South African Police Service and its “concomitant” failures, not due to incompetence (of course, some officers are incompetent; that’s life). Still, the glaring failure I am talking about is the design-induced failure. Of course, for five years or more, we had a jester for a police minister who enjoyed watching himself on TV but did nothing to upgrade the police service’s archaic systems from victim statement taking, case number generation, detective allocation and actual court ready dockets aided and abetted by technology. Everything is paper-based, and we are in 2024, nogal.
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War against women, children

Columns
| Dec 2024
The Witness
"The findings, my labour of love, reveal the shocking pervasiveness of violence against women and children. Each statistic represents lives shattered, often aided and abetted by your inertia."
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu: There’s a war against women and children

Columns
| Dec 2024
Daily Maverick
‘I announce the passing of your mythical daughter, Tintswalo’
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Truth will out

Columns
| Dec 2024
The Witness
Please, my leader, explain how 100 days turned into 1 030 days without a word or a compact. Or is that question too tricky? Let me simplify: What exactly has your economic policy been since taking over from uBaba on February 15, 2018?
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — what on Earth happened to the social compact?

Columns
| Dec 2024
Daily Maverick
In case someone accuses me of embellishing, you told Parliament (House of Nothingness): “We have given ourselves 100 days to finalise a comprehensive social compact to grow our economy, create jobs and combat hunger.” Please, my leader, explain to me slowly, like someone speaking to a five-year-old child whose toys were bought with money deposited via ATMs, how 100 days morphed into 1,030 days without a word of the social compact? Okay, that may be a tricky question.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu – my leader, you aim for the stars but don’t reach the treetops

Columns
| Nov 2024
Daily Maverick
Since 16 February 2018, for a staggering 2,113 days — in maths literacy terms, an exact five years, nine months, and 13 days — you’ve revelled in the trappings of high office, but the masses of our people have nothing to show for it.
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A lie has no legs

Columns
| Nov 2024
The Witness
Yet, 2113 days — precisely five years, nine months and 13 days later — the “masses” have nothing to show for it but dashed hopes. Your promises?
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Africa’s Travel Indaba 2023 – “Electric”  

News Articles
| May 2023
South African Tourism
Durban, South Africa: Africa’s Travel Indaba 2023 was a phenomenal success. According to initial indications, this year’s Indaba surpassed projections with a remarkable 8,629 delegates, hosting 21,000 meetings between exhibitors and international buyers. Additionally, the event featured no less than 1,000 international buyers and 1,023 exhibitors who showcased an impressive array of products.
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South Africa’s Tourism Sector Landscape: 30 years into freedom.

News Articles
| Mar 2024
South African Tourism
This year, South Africa celebrates 30 years of freedom providing a great opportunity for reflection. The tourism landscape in South Africa has transformed immensely since the 1994 democratic breakthrough. Not only has transformation, spearheaded by the government through deliberate policy and programmatic interventions, opened up new vistas for the sector, it has ensured that the sector is opened up and truly reflects the demographics of South Africa.
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Exceptional Africans Take Center Stage at Meetings Africa, 2024

News Articles
| Feb 2024
South African Tourism
The 17th edition of Meetings Africa, a business events trade show owned by South African Tourism in partnership with Gauteng Tourism and Joburg Tourism, kicked off in style with a vibrant Business Opportunity Networking Day (BONDay) at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
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Africa’s Travel Indaba 2022 a boon for the tourism sector

News Articles
| May 2022
South African Tourism
Africa’s Travel Indaba 2022 was a boon for the continent’s tourism sector as well as the host city of Durban, province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). This is as hundreds of buyers and exhibitors from 55 countries descended on Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre (ICC) from 2-5 May, to trade on the continent’s best tourism products and experiences. Of the 55 countries, 19 were from the African continent, including South Africa.
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SACIA introduces first-ever Designation Awards for Event Pros

News Articles
| Feb 2024
South African Tourism
In an exclusive interview with the Daily News, she says, “I love it. I am accustomed to seeing different faces, some uptight and some with different energy... My role at Meetings Africa is to scan people’s tags and direct them to their sessions.”
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South Africa is Loved – Three South African Destinations Ranked among the Top 100 Most Loved in the World.

News Articles
| Mar 2023
South African Tourim
South Africa’s tourism industry has received a boost as three of its towns made it to the world’s top 100 most loved destinations, according to the Tourism Sentiment Index (TSI) for 2022.
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Dome Glamping SA: Revolutionising Luxury Outdoor Experiences

News Articles
| Oct 2024
South African Tourism
In the heart of the Berg River Resort, near Cape Town, lies Dome Glamping SA, an innovative venture merging luxury with nature. Spearheaded by Jana Breet, the company has swiftly carved a niche in the hospitality industry. Breet proudly noted that her company offers “a unique romantic getaway experience for couples,” with luxurious dome tents featuring queen-sized beds, walk-in showers, private decks, and wood-fired hot tubs, all set against the stunning backdrop of the Cape Winelands and serene Berg River.
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Sycro Distribution: Driving Glamping Solutions in SA Tourism

News Articles
| Oct 2024
South African Tourism
As the glamping industry booms globally, Sycro Distribution, a leading supplier in South Africa's hospitality sector, is crucial in providing innovative solutions. The company initially focused on high-quality hospitality equipment and has since expanded to include products tailored for the glamping and adventure markets. Sycro's services have been critical in meeting the evolving demands of a post-COVID tourism industry that increasingly caters for discerning local and international travellers.
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Glamping Boom: Limpopo’s Mopane Bush Lodge Leads the Way

News Articles
| Oct 2024
South African Tourism
Mopane Bush Lodge, nestled in the heart of the Mapesu Private Game Reserve in Limpopo, near the iconic Kruger National Park in South Africa, is making its mark in the expanding glamping and adventure tourism market.
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‘Smoke them out’

Columns
| Nov 2024
The Witness
"Ntshavheni is my kind of woman; she has a knack for speaking the truth — not to power, mind you, but to the poor."
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu — we must smoke out our crooked politicians in the battle against corruption

Columns
| Nov 2024
Daily Maverick
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s statement that ‘criminals are not to be helped, criminals are to be persecuted’ delivers an important lesson: that all ANC cadres entangled with the law are to be deemed ‘criminals’ and we, as the electorate, must refuse to be served by such individuals.
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Letter to President Ramaphosa — it’s time we had a Department of Common Sense

Columns
| Nov 2024
Daily Maverick
Instead of following Trump’s example, let’s have a Department of Common Sense led by two seasoned entrepreneurs: Brian Joffe, the founder of the Bidvest Group, and Adrian Gore, the founder of Discovery Holdings. Design new remuneration standards, cut red tape and set the country on a path to recovery. Excuse my clumsiness; leadership, I forgot about affirmative action.
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GNU smoke and mirrors

Columns
| Nov 2024
The Witness
I guess “a country gets the government it deserves”. Our governance — a mosaic of saints and scoundrels — is but a reflection of ourselves
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Letter to President Ramaphosa – there are piles of orange overalls waiting to be filled

Columns
| Nov 2024
Daily Maverick
I’m sitting here in my study (take note, haters) in the leafy suburb of Waterkloof, Pretoria, gazing out at the jacarandas in full bloom. Yet, despite my earlier musings on the so-called green shoots of this GNU, I find myself gripped by a great sense of unease.
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Political education for all

Columns
| Nov 2024
The Witness
One module should be Pure Mathematics and Financial Accounting 101. Cadres must be taught, using a case study from the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Thembi Simelane, on how not to diversify one’s income, investment decision-making, and understanding the interest charged on loans.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu – time to send all comrades (and John Steenhuisen) back to political school

Columns
| Oct 2024
Daily Maverick
The most important module is ‘Radical Concepts of Political Morality and Humility’. Here we tackle the essential lesson that you cannot drive a ‘borrowed’ armoured Mercedes-AMG G63 on the election campaign trail in an informal settlement. If you qualify for VIP protection, this course is a must for you.
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Dream big and study the mathematics of corruption

Columns
| Oct 2024
Daily Maverick
I say to the new Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube: discontinue mathematical literacy, otherwise all “our” leaders will end up in orange overalls for stealing small change.
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Maths lit and politicians

Columns
| Oct 2024
The Witness
I don’t know, my leader, if you follow, but white people truly know how to steal. I chalk it up to them having never done mathematical literacy but rather pure mathematics, while “our” leaders mastered biblical studies and agriculture at school.
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Rats, mice and GBV

Columns
| Oct 2024
The Witness
As we approach the United Nations 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, I urge us to extend the analogy of rats and mice to the pervasive, costly and pandemic levels of gender-based violence and femicide.
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Bean counting

Columns
| Oct 2024
The Witness
What baffles me is the decision to purchase a coffee shop in Sandton while comfortably ensconced in the mayoral office in Polokwane, and the shop is 316 km from your daily grind.
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Faith Action Breaking the Cycle of Gender Violence

Thought Leadership
| Oct 2024
Polity.org.za
To rattle the cage and move beyond scriptures, the new interfaith strategy to end gender-based violence and femicide calls for champions in every community and the elevation of survivor voices, writes Bhekisisa Mncube.
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Till femicide do them part

Thought Leadership
| Oct 2024
By Bhekisisa Mncube and City Press
Society must urgently awaken to the need to break the silence, liberate religious texts from the misinterpretation by charlatans, and foster harmonious collaboration with government and all relevant partners to end gender-based violence.
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Till Femicide Do Them Part

Thought Leadership
| Oct 2024
By Bhekisisa Mncube
Society must urgently awaken to the need to break the silence, liberate religious texts from the misinterpretation by charlatans, and foster harmonious collaboration with government and all relevant partners to end gender-based violence.
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New interfaith initiative is critical to breaking the cycle of gender-based violence

Thought Leadership
| Oct 2024
Daily Maverick
To rattle the cage and move beyond scriptures, the new interfaith strategy to end gender-based violence and femicide calls for champions in every community and the elevation of survivor voices.
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“Bloomberg Africa Business Media Innovators” Forum 2023 – site reporting articles

News Articles
| Nov 2023
By Bhekisisa Mncube
The 6th Africa Business Media Innovators (ABMI) conference, hosted by Bloomberg Media, brought together a constellation of thought leaders, innovators, and visionaries to explore the intersection of technology, creativity, governance, and media in Africa.
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GNU: First 100 days

Columns
| Sep 2024
The Witness
Since 2005, I’ve basked in the glow of proximity to the high and mighty of the ANC elite.
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DA: An aha moment

Columns
| Jul 2024
The Witness
My aha moment reveals that voters care about tangible issues — working streetlights, potholes, running water, reliable electricity, jobs, grants or even a messiah. Zuma anyone?
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Interfaith Collective Launches Ground-breaking GBV Prevention and Mitigation Strategy

Articles
| Sep 2024
By Bhekisisa Mncube
“This strategy builds on the successful launch of last year’s Statement of Intent and is a comprehensive, actionable plan that outlines clear, measurable steps for faith communities to take in preventing and responding to gender-based violence,” said Daniela Gennrich, Coordinator at WWSOSA.
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Whose ANC is it anyway?

Columns
| Jul 2024
The Witness
It is a tragic spectacle, seeing former political heavyweights reduced to clinging to the coattails of a dubious Zuma cause.
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Turning the tide

Columns
| Jul 2024
The Witness
In other news, the Public Procurement Act, which you signed into law on Tuesday, is a significant development for economic transformation and anti-graft measures in our country.
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Zuma’s Fall: An ode to uBaba

Columns
| Aug 2024
The Witness
Zuma's expulsion from the ANC marks the end of an era, if not an error, and the beginning of a new journey that continues to captivate and confound in equal measure.
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SAPS: The thin blue line

Columns
| Aug 2024
The Witness
Many police officers, with only matric qualifications, lack the skills to combat syndicates or handle financial crimes.
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Floyd Shivambu & Songs of the revolution

Columns
| Aug 2024
The Witness
As an academic genius, one must wonder: Did Floyd truly apply his mind or let emotion guide him as he abandoned the trenches of economic freedom for an unknown entity?
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Chiefs of Stuff

Columns
| Oct 2024
The Witness
I see absolutely nothing wrong with Cabanac’s appointment; after all, I’ve witnessed far worse when dealing with chiefs of staff.
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Zuma’s Party: Rogue’s gallery

Columns
| Sep 2024
The Witness
This week, my dear leader, let’s delve into the rogue’s gallery sworn in last week, now gracing the opposition benches in the National Assembly, hand-picked by none other than uBaba of the Zuma Party.
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GNU & Green shoots

Columns
| Sep 2024
The Witness
As a prematurely retired servant of the people, I’m seeing green shoots in the DA’s behaviour, finally ridding itself of rotten apples.
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Interfaith Collective Unveils Historic Covenant to End GBV

News Articles
| Oct 2024
By Bhekisisa Mncube
"The scourge of gender-based violence costs the fiscus R45 billion annually in monetary terms. This includes direct costs such as medical care, legal services, and lost income. We are yet to fully calculate its devastating emotional and psychological toll on survivors and victims," said Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Mmapaseka Steve Letsike.
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 End spiritual abuse

Columns
| Oct 2024
The Witness
"The strategy, a first of its kind, seeks to unite the faith sector to address its perennial crisis: complicity in the perpetuation of spiritual violence, that twin evil of gender-based violence."
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Bhekisisa Mncube: Whose GNU is it anyway?

Columns
| Jul 2024
news24
In a satirical column addressed to Cyril Ramaphosa, Bhekisisa Mncube reflects on the President's negotiating skills and how he landed up with the cabinet he has.
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Have you ever thought of death as a blessing?

Opinions
| Jun 2024
news24
I am relieved, in hindsight, that my parents died before becoming unable to care for themselves and before they had to kept alive by machines, writes guest columnist Bhekisisa Mncube.
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Body of Work – Polity

Articles, Columns
| Oct 2024
Polity.org
The Faith Action to End Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Collective, in collaboration with We Will Speak Out South Africa, launched a groundbreaking Interfaith GBV Prevention and Mitigation Strategy 2024–2030 in Johannesburg.
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Body of work

Columns
May 2018 - current
Bhekisisa Mncube as seen in: Flipboard, City Press, News24, Sunday Times, Eyewitness News, The Citizen (South Africa), Mail & Guardian, Sowetan, Polity, JournalismIziko (May 2018 - current).
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Jacob Zuma: the uncouth populist posing as a messiah

Columns
| Jun 2024
City Press
The political gods smiled at me when I chanced upon the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Facebook Live session leading up to the first sitting of the seventh Parliament of South Africa.
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Calls for Collaboration across Africa Made at Africa’s Tourism Indaba

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| May 2023
By Bhekisisa Mncube
I am deeply enthusiastic about fostering the expansion and progress of tourism within our nation and throughout Africa.
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Zuma: Messiah or populist?

Columns
| Jun 2024
LitNet
The rise of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) represents a confluence of ethnic mobilisation, false anti-capitalist sentiment, myopic pro-black advocacy, and purported resistance against Western influence.
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Basic Education Speeches

Speeches
01 Jul 2014 - 20 May 2024
A decade body of work.
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Journey from apartheid to freedom

Opinions, Thought Leadership
| May 2024
LitNet
Reflecting on the 30 years of democracy in South Africa, Bhekisisa Mncube writes that when he voted in 1994, he vowed to become a combatant for freedom and truth, a prisoner of hope and an eternal optimist.
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Billboard battles – When dead leaders campaign for the living

Columns
| Apr 2024
news24
In a satirical column addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Bhekisisa Mncube writes about his ideological battle with some of the country's two-faced leaders.
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Triumph and legacy in the wake of loss

Opinions
| Apr 2024
news24
Live by Design is a weekly News24 column by Dr Helena Dolny and Mapi Mhlangu on mortality and the conversations around it. This week, guest columnist Bhekisisa Mncube makes a case for respecting the will of the departed, for their last wishes carry the weight of their life.
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South Africa’s Tourism Sector Landscape: 30 years into freedom!

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| Mar 2024
southafrica.net
This year, South Africa celebrates 30 years of freedom providing a great opportunity for reflection. The tourism landscape in South Africa has transformed immensely since the 1994 democratic breakthrough.
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South Africa’s Mega Lekker Escape wins hearts in Australasia

Features, Op-eds
| Mar 2024
southafrica.net
The successful engagement of Australasian partners with South Africa's sustainability efforts and cultural diversity through the 'Mega Lekker Escape' underscores the pivotal role of first-hand experiences in fostering a deep-seated appreciation and understanding.
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Patricia de Lille | How the tourism sector has fared over the past 30 years

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| Mar 2024
City Press
This year, South Africa celebrates 30 years of freedom, providing a great opportunity for reflection. The tourism landscape in South Africa has transformed immensely since the 1994 democratic breakthrough.
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Visa exemption meets marketing prowess: a match proven incredible for Kenya arrivals to South Africa!

News Articles, Thought Leadership
| Mar 2024
southafrica.net
In an era where intercontinental collaboration has become increasingly crucial, the recent surge in tourism numbers from Kenya to South Africa demonstrates the transformative power of visa-free travel and targeted marketing efforts.
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From coast to culture: South Africa’s sustainable tourism journey

Articles, News Articles
| Mar 2024
southafrica.net
Sustainability in tourism isn’t a grand gesture or some abstract concept, but rather about the people, their heritage and prosperity and the planet,” writes Bronwen Auret of South African Tourism.
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Angie Motshekga | SA’s basic education landscape has evolved despite its challenges

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| Feb 2024
City Press
Over the past decade, the National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate has consistently risen from 60% in 2009 to more than 80% in recent years. The Class of 2023 deserves praise for upholding this positive trend, achieving an 82.9% pass rate.
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Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu – Ubani Lo Zuma?

Columns
| Dec 2023
news24
Chief Dwasaho, the sands are shifting, heralding an era of sea change. uBaba kaDuduzane (soothe others), no Mziwoxolo (house of refuge) Edward Zuma and a band of 25 et al. has turned traitor, wielding the Spear of the Nation (uMkhonto weSizwe) to stab you squarely in the back.
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Embracing forgiveness and healing in the face of familial abuse

Opinions
| Dec 2023
City Press
My brother’s death last year did not evoke grief in me. Instead, I felt a sense of ambivalence. Learning of his brutal demise brought a certain catharsis.
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World AIDS Day 2024: Tackling HIV in South Africa’s Young Population

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| Nov 2023
Through comprehensive sexuality education, combined with the significant achievements in vaccinating over 80% of Grade 5 girls against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), deworming over 3.5 million learners in grades R-7, and daily feeding 9.6 million learners, we are making strides.
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SA has made great progress towards an Aids-free future, but many challenges persist

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| Dec 2023
timeslive.co.za
HIV still poses a serious risk to SA's health, especially among the youth, writes Angie Motshekga
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No, Prof Tomlinson, SA’s basic education system is not in ruins, it’s on the rise

Op-eds, Thought Leadership
| Nov 2023
Daily Maverick
Folk devils and moral panics result in manufactured outrage, designed to scare users of public schooling and deter private-sector investment in South Africa’s basic education sector.
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