Africans must find their own solutions to their problems rather than pointing fingers. Dinesh D’Souza’s two cheers for colonialism must look exceptionally preposterous to some. If I were John Matshikiza I wouldn’t have reacted as furiously as he.
Increasing numbers of voters are supporting independent candidates. If results of by-elections since are anything to go by, support is growing for independent candidates in some areas, showing disenchantment with traditional party politics.
Did Judge Jerome Ngwenya condone suspect business practices? Evidence presented by him suggests he did. A high court judge knew about what he took to be an irregular attempt by his own company to win an airports tender.
The presidency is breaking out of its circle of ”yes-men” to hire advisers from the political mainstream. The appointment of three new faces announced last week is being described as an attempt to ”beef up the sensible end of the scale in the presidency”.
The Party faces embarrassment over contract with the notorious Aggett interrogator. The man whose company ”bug-proofed” offices for the former Western Cape government is the security policeman who led the interrogation of Neil Aggett before his death.
A leading African intellectual close to the government may have blotted his copybook by signing a declaration criticising the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad). Dr Eddy Maloka is head of the Africa Institute of South Africa.
Activities of a company claiming to enforce copyright piracy laws appear designed to drive small competitors of the big film and video games distribution companies out of the market.
OBITUARY: World-renowned popularising palaeontologist controversially revised Darwin’s theories and took a political stand on science. Profesor Stephen Jay Gould was an unlikely figure to have been canonised in his lifetime by the United States Congress.
Jurgen Harksen has claimed that former Western Cape finance MEC Leon Markovitz once impersonated a doctor to speak to him confidentially in hospital.
Is Condoleezza Rice set to become the US’s first black and female vice-president? She is suddenly being talked about as a serious contender for the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 2004 and George W Bush’s secret weapon for a second term