JUSTICE MALALA: Limping into the new world
Ramaphosa is leading us into a new, complex world with a state whose capabilities have been destroyed
JUSTICE MALALA: The CEOs who never left
Helen Zille is in charge at the DA, no matter what she may say. Yet she comes at a price to the party in the long run
JUSTICE MALALA: Fiddling while Rome burns
SA is plunging into unprecedented economic disaster, but the cabinet floats on a cloud of complacency
JUSTICE MALALA: A theory that’s too full of holes
The argument that a faction of the ANC is undermining Ramaphosa’s Covid-19 fight has no legs
JUSTICE MALALA: The end of the world as we know it
This is a new paradigm: Covid-19 has shifted the balance of power within the ANC, perhaps permanently
JUSTICE MALALA: How post-Covid SA favours the EFF
The EFF may inherit the future – all it has to do at this time is lie in wait while Covid-19 defeats our economy
JUSTICE MALALA: Lockdown unleashes the dictator within
During this lockdown, some of our politicians have let their masks of ‘commitment to democracy’ slip
JUSTICE MALALA: Ramaphosa must reshuffle his cabinet — fast
We need the best team for the challenges that lie ahead, and this means Ramaphosa’s cabinet must be reshuffled
JUSTICE MALALA: Cyril’s time to shine
With an adoring country behind him, Ramaphosa must use the downgrade to act decisively, economically and politically
JUSTICE MALALA: SA will emerge from Covid-19 a different country
The winter of our discontent is here, yet we must not despair. Out of devastation there is a chance to remake ourselves
JUSTICE MALALA: Don’t waste the virus crisis
Covid-19 has scared us but we dare not waste the chance to get our house in order, or we’ll be punished in coming months
JUSTICE MALALA: The truth dawns on Cyril at last
Ramaphosa admits that the state’s incapacity to execute his reforms should have been his biggest priority. He is right
JUSTICE MALALA: We can do it again, and quickly
SA has a history of negotiation that enables it to hammer out a solution with public sector trade unions over the wage bill
JUSTICE MALALA: The politics of destruction
Neither campuses nor parliament, where the EFF’s Pambo and his ilk now sit, are any longer spaces for the discussion of ideas
JUSTICE MALALA: Show us some respect, Cyril
Ramaphosa’s effort to pacify the populists comes at the cost of the implementable ideas that SA needs in order to advance
JUSTICE MALALA: Things really could be worse in SA
Globally, the days of leaders who grasped the idea of humanity as part of an international community seem to be behind us
JUSTICE MALALA: Was Zuma the problem or is the ANC the destroyer of value?
Was the destruction of SA particular to the ANC under Zuma, or is the party itself the destroyer of value? We’ll know this month
JUSTICE MALALA: Government’s great SOE fib: no more interference
Ramaphosa’s declarations about government noninterference in the operation of state-owned enterprises ring hollow
JUSTICE MALALA: DD Mabuza is a hungry man
As the jostling in the ANC begins, it may profit us to remember that the deputy president looks after nobody but himself
