My biography of Harry Oppenheimer, published by @JonathanBallPub, will be in bookstores a month from today. Thanks to Sean Robertson for the great cover design, and @Bruceps for the generous shout.

How can there be "no regrets" over a fuck up of this magnitude. It's not about him. It's about the country!!!

The irony of Rasool making his comments to an “Institute for Strategic Reflection”. Too much.

“The Trump administration is now bringing the post–World War II era to an end,” @anneapplebaum writes. American allies, especially in Europe, need to face up to this new reality and make dramatic changes: theatlantic.com/internationa…

Inaction, corruption and theft in the City of Joburg are destroying Africa’s most valuable art collection, once worth hundreds of millions of rands. 🔗 @GTalevi unveils the shocking reality behind the Johannesburg Art Gallery. currencynews.co.za/the-great…

This Business Day editorial on Ebrahim Rasool's ambassadorial appointment strains credulity, to put it mildly.

The re-election of Donald Trump is a decisive rejection of liberalism, writes Francis Fukuyama: on.ft.com/3YJffkn

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Lenin, Mao and the GNU. It’s good to be reminded of the ANC’s ideological pathologies every now and then.

Tony Leon | SA enters a Kafkaesque era of opposition leadership in Parliament news24.com/news24/opinions/c…

There’s an anecdote in Michael Cardo’s 2023 biography of mining and industrial magnate Harry Oppenheimer that reveals a lot about the way President Cyril Ramaphosa negotiates, writes @Bruceps. timeslive.co.za/sunday-times…

Come again?

Not sure if the DA in its current form will exist in 5 years time (or the ANC for that matter). After today some kind of reformation or metamorphosis seems inevitable. A realignment is under way, the fault lines etched by the Constitution, and that’s cause for celebration.

Always thought Thoko Didiza was the best ANC pick for the job of Speaker of @ParliamentofRSA. It will be a great combo if @AnnelieLotriet is elected as her deputy.

Malema really is no different to any reactionary National Party zealot from the 1950s, fulminating against Hoggenheimer and the shadowy, omnipotent forces of “money power”.

Cyril at the Government kiosk:

Vintage Ramaphosa. A GNU without unity of purpose will collapse before it's even got off the ground. Either you're on the side of the Constitution, market-driven economic growth and non-racialism -- or you're not. Pick a side.

Any deal that enables the ANC to have its cake and eat it doesn’t augur very well for South Africa.

Today the ANC faces an historic choice. Which direction will they choose for the future of South Africa? On one path is the long climb out of national poverty to the hilltop of greater shared prosperity. On the other path lies continued national decline and impoverishment. The choice is theirs to make, and it won’t do to carry on avoiding hard choices. news24.com/news24/politics/c…

This sums things up more trenchantly than most: South Africa's Zeitenwende @politicsweb politicsweb.co.za/opinion/an…