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POLITICIANS, pundits, and the media united this week to remind us of their contempt for voters.

THE purpose of this country’s justice system, we are being told, is not to maintain order justly. It is to do what the minority who claim to speak for all of us want it to do.

IF you think colonialism and the attitudes it produces are dead, you were not paying attention to last week’s news.

A DEBATE in which only one side is heard is one which that side will always win. Which is why this country lives with huge poverty and inequality.

MACHINES have taken over from humans in many tasks. Politics is not one of them.

WE have no idea whether most South Africans support military rule. But we do know that the attitude of the minority who decides what we should think makes a coup more likely.

THE courts may be the newest victims of the witch hunt triggered by police general Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. If they are, the country may pay a particularly high price.

HAS the right-wing pandemic reached this country too? Not really. But that does not mean that democracy and human rights are safe here.

TO know why the African National Congress is losing ground at the polls, look at its newest economic plan.

IF we want to understand this country’s politics, we need to know the difference between those who want us to go forward and those who want to take us backward. This is more difficult than it may seem.