As the ANC holds its national leadership conference at Mangaung this month, Dale T. McKinley takes a satirical look at the party elite who have become increasingly tone-deaf to the demands of the masses

Another bombshell is about to be dropped onto South Africa’s raging political and legal battlefield and it involves one of the most contentious and emotive issues in our country - land.

By merging domestic and foreign intelligence, the new Bill raises the unenviable spectre of the all-powerful apartheid-era Bureau of State Security – and not without good reason.

As South Africa's ANC prepares to mark its 100th anniversary, Dale T. McKinley reflects on how capital came to trump the aspirations of workers in the aftermath of the Polokwane conference four years ago.

Dale T. McKinley takes a clause by clause look at South Africa’s Protection of Information Bill (POIB) – known publicly as the Secrecy Bill. It is ‘all very real and even more dangerous’, he writes, and South Africans should speak up now before it is too late.

‘As the public, we all have a right to know what rules and regulations govern the financial behaviour of our public officials and how they spend our public monies so that we can hold them accountable,’ writes Dale T. McKinley. So why is the South African government so keen to keep the contents of its ministerial handbook out of the public eye?

cc Dale McKinley explains how black economic empowerment in South Africa has come to be associated with elite accumulation, corruption and extreme inequality.

Dale T. McKinley introduces a new word into the political lexicon – polipreneurship. The word describes the idea of politics as business, but also the way in which politics is seen and approached.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/500/10_500.gifDale McKinley discusses how Pambazuka News has avoided eclipsing grassroots activism in Africa by adhering to a Pan-African and internationalist foundation. He also adds new directions for the platform to pursue.