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Jacob Zuma will be a more powerful figure inside prison than he is outside it. That is because it is easier to construct heroic myths about a person who is not in the public eye, but resides in the public imagination. The network that has converged around the ex-president presents an existential threat to the...

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Smile FM, The Honest Truth. An interview with Praveen Naidoo a media manager for The Center for Analytics & Behavioral Change.

Jacob Zuma and his supporters have wrapped their campaign around one big misrepresentation, which they unashamedly put into the public discourse at every opportunity: That the former president has done nothing wrong and is being persecuted for political purposes. Tentacles of disinformation have been developed around the big lie to strangle the truth.   Read...

Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and others in their faction – known as radical economic transformation (RET) forces – have come out in support of journalist Piet Rampedi and Independent Media.   Read full article

According to independent research, the idea of RET is being abused by ‘a handful of political elite seeking personal benefit’ on ‘suspicious’ Twitter accounts.   Read full article

Under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, the ANC government projected a leadership culture that was professional, diplomatic, disciplined and devoted to public service. They were sincere about improving the lives of South Africans. But President Cyril Ramaphosa inherited a fractious and dysfunctional ANC, one that had become nearly wholly compromised by the project of State...