Aubrey Matshiqi - Political Insight
The Health of the People Must be the Supreme Law
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 30th April 2020 Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of... →
The people have spoken – Aubrey Matshiqi 
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 29th May 2019 In its strategy and tactics documents, the African National Congress (ANC) talks about ‘the people’ as the key motive force of what the ruling... →
ANC will come out tops – and here’s why
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 3rd May 2019 Apparently there is a general election on May 8. Were it not for the so-called service delivery protests, one would have forgotten that South... →
Post-Sona blues
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 1st March 2019 The 2019 State of the Nation address (Sona) will be remembered for two things in the main: the anger with which some social partners greeted the... →
ANC manifesto: we’ve heard that all before
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 31st January 2019 Before I start, let me say this: I have spent the past two days thinking about what to say about the election manifesto of the African National... →
A reflection on 2018
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 14th December 2018 Almost a year ago, Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the Nasrec national conference of the ruling... →
State capture – again
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 19th October 2018 In my last interview with polity.org, I argued that there is an Askari element in the African National Congress (ANC). This Askari element consists... →
Facilitators of State capture in SA
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 21st September 2018 The State capture commission of inquiry is under way. The picture that is beginning to emerge is that of a South Africa where, by the time former... →
Land question
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 17th August 2018 Does South Africa belong to those who live in it, or to those who conquered it? In other words, is land expropriation without compensation... →
Ramaphoria index falling
By: Aubrey Matshiqi 20th July 2018 This month we are celebrating the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. I suspect that the country will celebrate more the older Mandela than... →
