Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s promotion to the position of minister of energy seems a bizarre move.
Jacob Zuma is a competent job creator – he conjured up six new ministerial positions in a single press conference. But SA needs private-sector jobs.
The ANC’s Women’s League fails to raise the question of the organisation’s commitment to gender equity when it matters most.
The EFF – who upstaged the National Assembly’s first sitting – and other MPs need to ensure Parliament is not a mere rubber stamp for the ANC.
The election outcome was a call by South Africans for soul-searching and a warning against complacency that the ANC and DA ignore at their peril.
It is a scandal that South Africa is doing nothing to rein in Swaziland’s King Mswati and his despotic lieutenants.
The Constitutional Court will contain for the first time mostly judges appointed during Zuma’s presidency.
In 1994 we asked you to vote for change. Twenty years later, we ask you to use your vote to dilute overweening political power.
Looking back over 20 years of democracy through the eyes of the "Mail & Guardian".
Spoiling your ballot, as some have pointed out, is still a valid choice open to the voter – and a better one than simply staying away from the polls.