Politicians have had their frustrations with the courts and from time to time they have expressed them in terms that rightly give cause for concern.
President Jacob Zuma this week announced the first concrete measures aimed at bringing the violent illegal strikes that have flared up under control.
This week the government responded to two of the issues facing a depressed South Africa – Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla upgrade and protracted strikes.
The ANC Women’s League tried to defend itself this week following a widely condemned comment by Clara Ndlovu, its Mpumalanga provincial secretary.
Why is the government so intent on dodging questions about the splurge on ‘security’ at President Jacob Zuma’s rural homestead?
This season’s wave of hooliganism poses an alarming threat to the future of the Premier Soccer League.
On Monday, the long lie that is the ANC pre-conference embargo on "leadership contestation" finally ends.
Many workers now believe violence is justified, indeed necessary. Some, notably in the transport union Satawu.
For all its failings, the military remains effective in one regard: instilling fear. And striking workers at Marikana felt that fear this week.
The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.