Max Du Preez's Blog, page 5

News24.com | ANC must let go of struggle nostalgia if real change is to come

President Cyril Ramaphosa's theme is renewal and growth, but his party is still caught up in the romanticism of the struggle against apartheid, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Fresh ideas needed to make Cyril's 'New Dawn' possible

South Africa has a weak currency, splendid natural beauty, a sophisticated infrastructure, a complete absence of terror attacks and is almost completely malaria free. We have to use this to our advantage, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | The honourable thing for AfriForum to do

If AfriForum changes its focus, South Africans will stop seeing them as a bunch of dangerous, greedy racists and we may even join hands with them, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Winnie's death captured by populist politics

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela gave full meaning to the expression "magnetic personality". If you met her once, you would never forget her, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | The KZN threat to Ramaphosa's presidency

Jacob Zuma is at the heart of the plot against Cyril Ramaphosa. Unlike his predecessors, who withdrew from politics after their presidential term ended, he has been very active in the ANC, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | The myth of 'reverse racism'

The charges of racism and "reverse racism" are flying like a swarm of locusts over South Africa. Perhaps we should pause and examine the anatomy of this ugly phenomenon, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Malema is no national oracle - time to stop treating him like one

Malema gets away with more lies, inconsistencies and double talk than any other politician. It is a serious indictment of the state of our national politics and the media, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Civil society's next target: the education of our children

I fully support the idea of free tertiary education, but what sense does it make to spend so much on students when primary education is of such a low standard ��� and children drown in pit latrines, asks Max du Preez.

News24.com | Ramaphosa is courting Malema - why it could backfire

It makes sense for Cyril Ramaphosa to flirt with Julius Malema because it tarnishes the EFF leader's image as a revolutionary messiah and takes the wind out of the EFF's sails, writes Max du Preez.

News24.com | Real action on land needed to counter extreme EFF rhetoric

For Julius Malema to say that whites should "go to hell" and that the EFF plans to "cut the throat of whiteness" is not tolerable in any real democracy, writes Max du Preez.