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.
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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.