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SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Sadc should hang its head
Zimbabwe remains a blot on the regional organisation’s record
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Truth be damned
The latest ructions in the MK Party speak to an organisation that’s marked by its indifference to its constituency, to due process and to the facts
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: ANC NEC passes the buck
The ANC must take a hard look in the mirror to explain its failures
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: There’s something rotten in the city of Tshwane
Chaos in council seems like comedy, but it masks the use of threat and force to get one’s way in politics
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Gwamanda going, going, gone
The Joburg mayor is apparently on his way out as ActionSA and the ANC reach an accord in the city
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Don’t get sick in the Eastern Cape
The province’s health system is a shambles, and it doesn’t augur well for NHI
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Gauteng’s clown-in-chief
Panyaza Lesufi is apparently scared of the DA’s success — so the province must fail
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: South African soldiers left in the lurch
Essential equipment and support are in short supply for the country’s troops in the DRC as resources fall short and political will seems to be absent
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Time for competence to trump politics
It’s all very well to bring in new ministers with ambitious plans, but it’s our notoriously fallible public servants who are supposed to implement them
SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: How to finesse the Zuma farce
The MK Party’s fabrication and distortion of fact is a danger to the very institutions of democracy
