Aubrey Matshiqi - Political Insight
The spirit of unity that blanketed SA during the FIFA World Cup must be harnessed 
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 16th July 2010 Even the most hardened of sceptics and cynics must, albeit grudgingly, accept that South Africa hosted one of the most magnificent soccer World... →
Let’s have a moratorium on political squabbling until after the World Cup
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 11th June 2010 This month, we are hosting guests from all over the world who are here in the hope that their national soccer teams, and not Bafana Bafana, will... →
Reflections on Cope ructions
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 14th May 2010 Is substantive democracy possible in a country that is not blessed with substantive uncertainty? →
Terre’Blanche’s killing one
of those things that continue to divide South Africa
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 16th April 2010 The killing of AWB leader Eugene TerreBlanche has added to the list of things that continue to divide South Africa along racial lines. →
Policy debate to hot up in next few years
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 12th March 2010 In whose lifetime will the nationalisation of mines happen? The fact that you are an avid reader of this column suggests that Father Time will... →
SA must take meaningful steps in what remains of its long walk to freedom
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 12th February 2010 In an ironic twist of history, De Klerk looked back on what South Africa had achieved since 1994 and argued that there were more assets than... →
Zuma coalition fracturing
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 15th January 2010 Last year ended with a lovers’ tiff. African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema threatened war, fire and brimstone after... →
Business and political leaders must walk the Madiba talk
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 11th December 2009 A few years ago, I watched a documentary in which former President Nelson Mandela regaled the television audience with stories of his life in the... →
Zuma’s contradictory coalition
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 13th November 2009 In the months leading up to the 2007 Polokwane conference of the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions... →
Politics and money: a circular relationship
16th October 2009 In South Africa, October is a red month. It is a month during which the South African Communist Party (SACP) engages in different campaigns as part... →
