ABOUT

Welcome to Inside Politics, a blog designed to host analysis of, commentary on and discussion about South African politics.

The site is managed and edited by me, Gareth van Onselen, in my personal capacity. More formally, I work for Victory Research, an international market research company, as its CEO.

I have in the past also worked for the DA, in various capacities to do with communication, research and analysis, and as a senior reporter for the Sunday Times newspaper, as the Head of Politics for the South African Institute of Race Relations and as a Business Day columnist.

You can email me with any queries about the site at: garethvanonselen at gmail dot com.

Also, please feel free to send me any contributions for consideration. If you would like to use any content on the site, go ahead, please just acknowledge the source: http://www.inside-politics.org

A brief word about the purpose behind Inside Politics: There exists at the moment few places where liberal ideas and their relationship to politics and current affairs are explored and expanded upon.

Inside Politics is not exclusively about liberalism – it will include a number of series designed to look at current affairs, the media and, from time-to-time, a behind the scenes look at politics.

In this spirit, I also aim to get a variety of guest contributors to write for the site.

Please sign up to the e-mail service (bottom right of front page – which will allow you to get new posts e-mailed directly to you, when they go up), engage with the content, leave us your thoughts and get involved!

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