‘ANC members charted the course. They mattered’
Zuma promised to reunite the ANC after he and Mbeki tore it apart in 2007, and now he leaves the top management of the party more divided.
‘Mechanisms to control the power of its party president are well within the reach of an ANC national conference’
‘The entire, vast, expensive edifice of surveillance and control failed’
In the absence of any other options, the Constitutional Court this week again deepened its involvement in the process to keep social grants flowing.
The M&G is an idea. It is the idea that excellent journalism empowers the confrontation of a world that is horribly unequal and unjust.
‘Instead of safeguarding Zimbabwe’s democracy, SADC repeatedly rubber-stamped Mugabe’s regime’
‘The hearings, so far, have indeed been a roundabout of accusation and counter-accusation, much denial and much fulmination’
‘Mugabe’s decades-long tenure as president shaped every facet of Zimbabwean society. He created an entire country in his own dysfunctional image’
‘At some point one must assume that her ignorance is self-induced. That point has long passed’