“Courts deal with bad law; voters must deal with bad politics” (Justice Skweyiya at para 308 of Merafong Demarcation Forum v President of the Republic of South Africa 2008 (5) SA 171) There is a spectre that is sweeping through regimes that do not deliver – the spectre of being chucked out by protestors fed up with...
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We are in the second month of 2011 and one wonders, what else is the world in store for. In the last last couple of weeks, Egypt, Libya, Iran and Yemen have erupted into chaos. Citizens have to gone to the streets demanding that their leaders step down. On average these leaders have been in power for over twenty years. All this...
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The successful popular uprising in Egypt has raised various questions. Questions like, “to what extent did the sustained interest of foreign media enable protests to continue for long enough to be successful?” Attempts by security forces to shut down foreign media reporting, as well as the interest of foreign governments, in...
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Thus spoke the anti-government and pro-democracy Egyptian protesters, who since the 25th of January have taken to the streets demanding the immediate resignation of Hosni Mubarak, the dictatorial president who has presided over Egypt for the past three decades. This date which was chosen for the commencement of protests serves a...
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A lot has happened in Egypt in very little time. Hosni Mubarak has attempted time and time again to equivocate some manner of grasping onto power just that little bit longer, like a hobo and his crackpipe, which has resulted in firm rebuffs from a young Egyptian population sick of dictatorial rule. There have been deaths, naturally,...
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