Drew Forrest
Drew Forrest is a former deputy editor of the M&G
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/ 1 June 2008

Daring to be a Daniel

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?”

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/ 11 April 2008

Congress chaos shocks leaders

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.

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/ 22 March 2008

What is ‘the good’?

"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.