Almost 14.5 million registered voters in the country are women. With that in mind, Melanie Verwoerd comes up with a Cabinet she would happily put her mark next to. Of course, most of the those in her Cabinet are women.
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While the DA is likely to keep control of the Cape Town metro, there is a high probability that smaller parties and independent candidates are going to take a bite out of the DA's blue cake in the city.
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The high number of teenage pregnancies in Gauteng are indicative of the fact that there are clearly thousands of incidents of statutory rape of very young girls in South Africa - and very few prosecutions.
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The ANC's financial woes are an embarrassment and something the party should have had the foresight to have dealt with.
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“If the ANC’s support drops dramatically in the polls and to the extent that the MPs and leadership start to get nervous about their own positions, the vultures will be joined by other predators and they will move in for the kill”, writes Melanie Verwoerd.
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It has been six weeks since Melanie’s diagnosis and surgery. "I have always been conscientious about my health, so how could a growth the size of a cricket ball develop only to be picked up during a routine gynae visit?"
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The ConCourt judges sent a powerful message and warning to many political operatives, who have increasingly been questioning the authority of the judiciary.
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Will Cyril Ramaphosa's popularity among the ANC's rank and file ensure him a second term as party president? Melanie Verwoerd examines several factors that could play a role in whether he will retain the position or not.
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Instead of pushing the ANC closer to the EFF or putting Ramaphosa under more threat from his detractors, the DA could be the bigger party and agree to safeguard property rights whilst speeding up the corrections of historical wrongs.
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