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News24.com | Playing the Wit Gevaar game

What we���re experiencing in the election campaigns of the EFF and the ANC at the moment amounts to naked Wit Gevaar games - to make race the main theme of one���s cheap populism, is irresponsible, opportunist and dangerous, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | 'We need to prepare an exit strategy for Zuma'

Now that the balance of power has irrevocably turned against President Jacob Zuma, we should be concerned with how we���re going to clean up the mess afterwards, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Zuma 'emulating PW Botha'

President Jacob Zuma is, in many ways, emulating PW Botha who had ruled with an iron fist during the 1980s to counter what he called a Total Onslaught against his government, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Nkandla judgment: A splendid day for democracy

What a splendid day for democracy in South Africa at a time many citizens were beginning to question whether we were on the slippery slope to becoming a banana republic, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Be on your guard, dezinformatsiya is coming

The erstwhile Russian KGB called it dezinformatsiya - the distribution of false information. Prepare yourself for a whole lot of dezinformatsiya in SA, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Was 9/12 the beginning of Zuma's end?

It's referred to it as ���9/12���, South Africa���s own destiny-changing 9/11 on 9 December 2015 - the day President Jacob Zuma fired Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with a loyal backbencher, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | 'South Africa has already started to burn'

Three ratings agencies are presently watching our economy and politics like vultures and are wondering whether it���s time to downgrade South Africa to junk status, says Max du Preez.

News24.com | Why can't Zuma be 'Thabo-ed'?

Several branches of the SACP and ANC have in recent weeks demanded explanations from Luthuli House why President Jacob Zuma could not be recalled the way Thabo Mbeki was, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | The Sars dossier that could spell trouble for Zuma and friends

One of the keys to the Sars hostility towards Pravin Gordhan is a dossier in the safe at Sars headquarters containing dynamite allegations of corruption against prominent benefactors of President Jacob Zuma, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Pravin Gordhan 'not untouchable'

Pravin Gordhan has the support of the more sober, pragmatic minds in the ANC, led by Cyrl Ramaphosa, but he is not as untouchable as some commentators believe, writes Max du Preez.