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/ 29 February 2008
"Regrettably he was buried in Durban," Masterbond campaigner Don Mackenzie reportedly said of one of the collapsed company’s curators. "Otherwise I’d go and piss on his grave." The Masterbond curatorship dragged on for more than a decade amid bitter claims that investors were milked. Its ghost hangs over the biggest South African corporate scandal
Disgraced police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi owes his dizzying rise after 1990 to his close personal bond with President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 10 January 2008
Jacob Zuma’s blitzkrieg for control of the ANC was triumphantly concluded this week with the election of the new national working committee (NWC), the party’s 28-member inner leadership core. The NWC, charged with the day-to-day running of the ANC, will spearhead the next stage in Zuma’s campaign — the attritional warfare for control of government that will likely be more reminiscent of Stalingrad.
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/ 21 December 2007
Why has the ANC repeatedly elected former mine union bosses as its secretary general? An important reason, analysts say, is the historically close bond between the influential National Union of Mineworkers and the ANC and a shared political outlook reaching back to the Eighties.
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/ 13 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>At his official residence in Pretoria on Wednesday, President Thabo Mbeki gave the first interview of his eight-year presidency to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>. Looking tired and vulnerable, the president exposed the softer side of his complex personality, which South Africans hardly ever see.
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/ 19 November 2007
Tokyo Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda group was recently reported to be seeking a stake in the Mail &Guardian. Drew Forrest quizzed M&G proprietor Trevor Ncube about these reports, his media philosophy and the growing anti-media clamour in ruling circles.
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/ 16 November 2007
When Chris Martin was selected to play his first Test match for New Zealand, in
Bloemfontein in November 2000, one cricket writer suggested he ”had been plucked from the beach”. Once wavy-haired, with a reputation for roistering, Martin now has the shorn aspect of a Buddhist monk.
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/ 9 November 2007
Mark Gevisser’s book on Thabo Mbeki is easily the most serious effort by a biographer to get to grips with the elusive leader, writes Drew Forrest.
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/ 2 November 2007
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In a stirring tribute to former African National Congress president Oliver Tambo, ANC elder statesman Kader Asmal has delivered what reads as a veiled criticism of the leadership styles of both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Asmal does not specifically name either man in his address, given at the launch of the book, Oliver Tambo Remembered, in Johannesburg.
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/ 2 November 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan fears that the politics of the African National Congress is being "Yankeefied" by a growing fixation on personalities rather than policies. And he blames the media for fuelling the process. "You have to get away from this personalised contest between [Jacob] Zuma and [Thabo] Mbeki," he said this week.