Aubrey Matshiqi - Political Insight
Criminalisation of the State 
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 11th May 2012 Last month, not for the first time, I wrote in another publication about what I call the ‘deep state’. In the article, I explained that the deep... →
SA's leadership crisis reaches beyond the political crisis
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 12th April 2012 How is the decision to suspend African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president, Julius Malema, on top of the decision to expel him, going to... →
The Second Transition: The procedural and substantive gap of the post-Apartheid order
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 14th March 2012 Political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi speaks about a second transition advocated in the ruling ANC policy documents. →
Youth League now unlikely to influence ANC leadership, policy battles
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 27th February 2012 With the appeals committee having upheld Malema’s conviction by the disciplinary committee of the ANC on charges of bringing the party into... →
China not the only threat to democracy
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 20th January 2012 In 2010, I spent a month at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS) as a research fellow. →
The Jacob Zuma moment
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 9th December 2011 In 2012, the focus will be on policy and leadership battles in the African National Congress (ANC). But, something seems to be happening in... →
Our foreign policy must err on the side of democracy, human rights
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 11th November 2011 Is a democratic Libya going to rise from the ashes of Muamuar Gaddafi, or is the manner in which he was killed a harbinger of things to come? →
Economic freedom in our lifetime
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 12th October 2011 A few months ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu proposed that white people should pay a wealth tax because they benefitted from apartheid. Identifying... →
Malema and ANC policy, leadership battles
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 16th September 2011 The outcome of policy and leadership battles at the centenary conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in December 2012 will be shaped by... →
Battle for mindshare rages as ANC elective conference looms
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 12th August 2011 The conviction of Schabir Shaik, President Jacob Zuma’s former financial adviser, on charges of fraud and corruption in June 2005 opened the door... →
