This time we ask this question in the knowledge that it is on the lips of many South Africans, many of them dedicated members of the ANC, SACP and the trade unions …
Whether in his dealings with the Aids crisis surely the greatest threat ever to the country his timidity over Zimbabwe, or his dealings with the sensitive matter of race, he has made worse the disfigured nationhood bequeathed us by apartheid …
A great party is at risk of being turned into the instrument of a man caught up in his own personal rages and with so brittle an ego that he fears evisceration if he retreats on an issue or allows a recognition that he has failed.