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The DA’s Mr Delivery
The opposition’s new rock star has been making waves in Parliament with his can-do attitude, writes Marianne Thamm.
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Battle of the sexes needs a climax
Perhaps we should view the recent volley of insults about self-confessed womanising and wild whore libidos as a lancing of a national boil.
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Zille: In for the long haul
People often tell DA leader Helen Zille that she is in the ”wrong party”. ”It’s madness,” she says. ”Of course I’m not - there’s no alternative.”
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Time for a two-horse race?
Bantu Holomisa elicited frenzied cheering at Cope’s recent national convention, underscoring his continued popularity with disaffected black voters.
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ID: Bridging traditional gaps
Many charge that the ID is more of a one-person lobby group than an opposition party, but De Lille counters that it has grown both in membership terms
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The ‘silent revolution’ among South African voters
Marianne Thamm, Open Society Research Fellow for 2008, reports on new electoral volatility that poses a threat to the ANC’s overwhelming majority.
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The IFP’s modern face
"What mobilised people for Zuma was the way he was fired as deputy president. People think it was done because he’s a Zulu".
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COP hits the campaign trail
Four provinces are gearing up for possible Congress of the People governments after a week of campaigning by leaders of the new party.
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A turning tide?
The growing flexibility of voter attitudes highlighted by research is good news for ANC rebels planning a new party to fight next year’s elections.
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Where there’s smoke, there’s mirrors
The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old democracies have long been shaped. South Africa too has a rich history of political fiction, from Alan Paton to Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, Njabulo Ndebele and Lewis Nkosi. But there is, of course, a vast difference between the literary political novel and the "novel of politics", writes Marianne Thamm.
