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News24.com | DA propaganda is straight out of EFF rulebook

Despite his shortcomings, in the political reality of today, our best chance to see populism and corruption countered is an election victory for Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | DA propaganda is straight out EFF rulebook

Despite his shortcomings, in the political reality of today, our best chance to see populism and corruption countered is an election victory for Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Only unpopular decisions will lead SA out of Zuma ruins

Unemployment and inequality feed populism and ethnic nationalism, but instant solutions and socialist dreams can only make it worse in the longer term, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | ANC's demise could realign political forces

If the ANC's wheels keep on coming off over the next few years, we could possibly see the beginning of a fundamental rearrangement of political forces, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | ANC's demise could lead to realignment of political forces

If the ANC's wheels keep on coming off over the next few years, we could possibly see the beginning of a fundamental rearrangement of political forces, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Can Mboweni give Ramaphoria a second wind?

If Tito Mboweni sticks to this strategy, he could become South Africa's most effective finance minister, despite being in the job at the most difficult period since 1994, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Floyd Shivambu's fantastical tirade shows fear within the EFF

Floyd Shivambu's latest shenanigans and his party's campaign to intimidate the media and insult all their critics with wild, unsubstantiated gossip show that the EFF is worrying, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | The case for Sunday Times journalists to come clean

If the Sunday Times matter was seen as closed after the editor's apology for publishing false reports, it would undermine the credibility of the South African media, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | The ANC dynamics that make Ramaphosa's job impossible

President Cyril Ramaphosa may as well be honest with us: there are indeed ways of pulling South Africa out of the quicksand, but the internal dynamics of the ANC make that impossible, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | South Africans' blood ties with Indonesia and what it means today

If you're a South African with the surname Retief and you watched television scenes of the disaster in Indonesia last week, chances are that you looked at the faces of some of your distant relatives, writes Max du Preez.