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Justice Malala is an award-winning journalist, TV host, political commentator and newspaper columnist. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times and Financial Mail, among others, and is the resident political analyst for e.tv and eNews Channel Africa.
There is a national coalition government that is beginning to gel, to cohere into one entity pulling in one direction, and which is beginning to give hope and confidence — through deeds and not just words — to many citizens, commentators…
If there is anything elections in the 2000s have taught us, it is this: few of us can claim to have elected a leader we did not know.
Ramaphosa’s risky military move will fail miserably
In the Sunday Times yesterday [ February 8], Gauteng health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko was asked about overcrowding at hospitals.
It is a terrible thing to come across a human being who is apparently without a soul. Last week, thanks to the Madlanga commission of inquiry, we came across such a frightening specimen. It is KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major-General…
Political cowardice and leadership failure to blame
The world is entering a dangerously unstable era defined by the collapse of global rules and “might is right” geopolitics
Well, that was the 2025 political year, that was. I won’t miss it, and neither should any of us. It was a year in which SA’s accretion of bad habits reached their zenith.
Well, that was the 2025 political year, that was. I won’t miss it, and neither should any of us. It was a year in which SA’s accretion of bad habits reached their zenith.
The ongoing Madlanga commission and parliament’s ad hoc committee hearings into police malfeasance continue to underline that SA’s original state capturers have multiplied into a bigger, more sophisticated and far more dangerous animal.
It is possible that Brown Mogotsi went to the Madlanga Commission believing he would save Senzo Mchunu, the suspended police minister. He didn’t. Mogotsi buried Mchunu.
The shock expressed by SA’s leaders at news of the murder of Marius “Vlam” van der Merwe — the security company owner who testified at the Madlanga inquiry into corruption in the justice cluster — shows how out of touch our political…
On Wednesday last week, US President Donald Trump announced that SA would be barred from attending the next G20 summit in Miami in 2026. It is an extraordinary yet predictably irrational decision from the Trump administration.
Twenty-three months after Jacob Zuma announced himself as a member of a new political formation called the MKP, the jokes about and inside the entity do not stop writing themselves.
Very little in our politics makes sense today primarily because there is no connection between many political leaders’ words on the campaign trail and their actions when installed in office.
