Brent Meersman
TheSouthAfrican.com
Cape Town, WC, South Africa
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Does a South African have a right to someone’s job just because they're not a citizen?
Being undocumented is a victimless, bureaucratic transgression, and in countless cases the fault is not of the asylum seeker or immigrant, writes Brent Meersman. → Read More
South Africans want urban land more than white farms
“Expropriation without compensation” is unlikely to speed up land reform. Meanwhile, mass evictions of land occupiers are often from land already owned by the state. → Read More
South Africa’s worst budget since advent of democracy
There was no one more appropriate to deliver the worst budget speech and possibly the most anti-poor budget since the advent of democracy than Malusi Gigaba → Read More
South Africa gets a second chance: Malema is worried
Southh Africa: President Ramaphosa’s presidency has potential to revive the ANC and reshape the opposition political landscape. → Read More
Ramaphosa South Africa gets a second chance with new president
With Cyril Ramaphosa ascending to the presidency, the country has been given its best chance, out of what was viable and available in the ANC leadership → Read More
South Africa's Mandela: Icon or aikona?
A sellout is someone who betrays his own principles and his followers for personal venality. Where is the evidence that South Africa's Mandela betrayed himself and deceived his countrymen for self-gain? → Read More
Mnangagwa is Mugabe
Fixating on the removal of Mugabe or Zuma is a mistake. ZANU-PF must be voted out and the ANC must either completely reform or suffer electoral defeat → Read More
mbalula Send back the clown: South Africa’s Minister of Police is unfit to
abuse of a group of innocent men at the hands of South Africa’s current Minister of Police, Fikile Mbalula minister-police-unfit-hold-office → Read More
KPMG should go the way of Bell Pottinger
The South African arm of the international auditing firm KPMG has been exposed for its role in supporting the Gupta-Zuma state capture project. → Read More
Gunning for the poor: South Africa’s brutal policing
Gunning for the poor The ugly face of police brutality, redolent of police action during apartheid, surfaced yet again during → Read More
Can South Africa’s universities still be saved?
Unless something changes dramatically, the country’s top tertiary institutions may collapse with surprising speed. Can their demise be reversed? → Read More
Zuma’s toxic presidency is even infecting the views of civil society in South Africa
There have been many calls for a secret ballot in the impending vote of no confidence in South Africa’s president. However, is secrecy really what the country wants at this time, and would it not be setting a lasting, damaging precedent? asks Brent Meersman. → Read More
What is to be done about the Zuptas?
If one still had any doubt about the reality of state capture in South Africa, the failure to criminally investigate an avalanche of evidence or bring the Guptas to book is all the proof one needs. → Read More
South Africa: Have the Gupta leaks sunk the ship?
This is the first in a short series of columns on what the “Gupta leaks” mean for South Africa. → Read More
Why South Africans burn their trains
Corruption is at the root of what ends in angry commuter protests. → Read More
Cape Town hard hit by climate change
Drought conditions may see the city of Cape Town in South Africa on water rations. → Read More
Why South Africans burn their schools
This year marks 40 years since the student uprisings of 1976, after which South Africa was never the same again. At the heart of the student protests was black consciousness – a political awareness of what it meant to be saddled with a grossly inferior education in segregated schools. Schools remain a prime a target for protest action. Just a few recent examples include: in April, angry students… → Read More
South Africa – the insecurity state
A creeping security state is sapping away South Africa’s vulnerable democracy. The irony is that it is done in the name of democracy, and while capital and the political elite make themselves ever more secure, the lives of the poor become ever more precarious. → Read More