The discovery of a fossilised skeleton at the Cradle for Humankind could be the next step in the search for human origins.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu moves between homely anecdote and high theological abstraction in a wide-ranging interview with Drew Forrest.
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/ 27 November 2009
Drew Forrest can’t help feeling that facts have
been stretched in Anthea Jeffery’s latest book.
It’s time for South Africa to revisit their strategy — and their arrogance — after the Wanderers whipping by Oz.
While Blade Nzimande attacks the media and judiciary, South Africans must heed the words of the Constitution’s caretakers.
Deputy editor Drew Forrest was a member of the South African fact-finding delegation which toured Israel/Palestine last week.
Nelson Mandela is a world-historical icon who has enlarged human freedom and redefined humanist ideals, writes Drew Forrest.
POINT: In April 2001, 22 months after Thabo Mbeki became president, the Mail & Guardian ran a full-length front-cover photograph of him alongside the question: ”Is this man fit to rule?” Letters to the paper the following week convey the intensity of the reaction. ”Who are these racists masquerading as newspapermen?”
Three heavyweight former leaders of the ANC Youth League have expressed dismay over the league’s chaotic five-day conference, complaining that it reflected sharply deteriorating ”cadreship” throughout the ANC. The conference adjourned without passing a single substantive resolution on issues relating to South Africa’s youth.
"What is ‘good’? ‘Good’ for whom? Is there a common good – the same for all people, all tribes, all conditions of life? Or is my good your evil? … Is good eternal and constant? Or is yesterday’s good today’s vice, yesterday’s evil today’s good?" Drawing on Vasily Grossman’s <i>Life and Fate</i>, Drew Forrest argues that organised faiths inevitably oppress and divide.