As part of the Democracy 2009 series, the Mail & Guardian presents the guide for the elections tomorrow.
ANC president Jacob Zuma's attorney Michael Hulley has dismissed as "ill-informed and ludicrous" the DA's move to lay a charge against him.
DA leader Helen Zille took her election campaign to Dysselsdorp on Wednesday, urging the community to help her form a new majority party.
It took a long time but eventually the might of the ANC wore down the NPA, whose professional prosecutors had sought to bring Jacob Zuma to trial.
There was no "shoot out" between the ANC Youth League and the Orania Movement on Saturday during a much anticipated visit by Julius Malema.
The DA won victories in two by-elections held in Cape Town on Wednesday, a sign, the party says, that it is on track to win the Western Cape.
Despite gender protocols, women are seldom in the postition to redirect resources towards solving problems, writes Jessie Duarte.
Getting gender parity on the party lists has become an essential balancing act. Rapule Tabane reports.
Ferial Haffajee asks whether the government’s stance on cultural freedom ignores equal rights for women.
ANC veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will be allowed to represent the ANC in Parliament, the Independent Electoral Commission said on
Monday.
Time to move past war cries and into real equality and a culture of human rights, says Pregs Govender.
Hearing about the state of the economy is no fun. Especially when you get experts and politicians in the same room. Tanya Pampalone reports.
Though employment isn’t easy to come by, there are jobs out there. Phillip de Wet found industries that might just be hiring.
Phillip de Wet went to the executive floor to find out what business thinks about the state of our economy.
Ferial Haffajee: Possibly one of the finest public documents yet published, the 2025 Scenarios paint three states of our nation in 16 years.
At the Mail & Guardian ’s critical thinking forum in Cape Town two weeks ago, the president’s state of the nation address scored mixed reviews.
Zackie Achmat: local and global inequality touches everyone. It cannot be resolved in a single election cycle.
Lebo Mashile: It would take at least two 9/11s and a tsunami for South Africans to be thrown into a state of panic.
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein: What will be the state of our nation in the future? What is our vision for South Africa?
Mandy Rossouw finds out why South Africa so badly needs the good news
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Democracy 2009 is the first of an ongoing series by the Mail & Guardian in association with the Open Society Foundation
The Mail & Guardian ’s Critical Thinking Forums have been notorious places of discussion since they began in 2005, bringing together key politicians, top academics, public intellectuals and corporate mavericks for some of the greatest South African democratic debates of our era.
This year’s agenda will be no different. On the calendar for 2009 the Forum will deliberate about the country’s economic policies in the middle of a global meltdown and an all-new budget, discuss the state of our Constitution and take a serious look at poverty and development in the new new South Africa.
