EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: SA’s opposition parties — ‘ideologues, extremists or sociopaths’
Did opposition parties wrest metros from the ANC in 2016 — or did ANC supporters simply stay at home instead of voting?
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world South African Revenue Service (SARS) staff are supposed to serve the people of SA, not certain politically connected individuals, newly re-appointed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene reminds them. Ousted SARS commissioner Tom Moyane’s story, in many ways, mimics that of the man who appointed him, former president Jacob Zuma. In My Opinion Matters of debate Given the dominance of the ANC, candidates attracted by opposition parties with little hope of winning tend to be crazy "ideologues, extremists or sociopaths, such as Julius Malema or Helen Zille", writes Anthony Butler. It was ANC supporters opting to stay at home instead of turning up for the party, rather than the strength of opposition parties, that led to the ANC’s loss of three metros in 2016, writes Natasha Marrian. Finding Alpha The long and the short of the markets Redefine chairman Marc Wainer reminisces to Giulietta Talevi on why Hillbrow’s flats, built in the 1960s, were constr...
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