‘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.
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‘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’
‘So any means that allow women who have suffered sexual violence to articulate their pain are to be welcomed’
‘Assuming to be true what we cannot yet know makes us vulnerable to manipulation, with consequences for both the innocent and the guilty’
‘South Africans are so inured to protests that a small protest at an NPA office in Cape Town barely registers’