Milton Shain
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/ 31 August 2005

Radical to be liberal

In his widely praised albeit controversial Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC, William Mervin Gumede argues that opposition parties in South Africa "have been caught embarrassingly off guard" by the "dramatic repositioning" of the African National Congress.

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/ 24 September 2003

Why the left should back US

With the Independent stable regularly genuflecting to its in-house polemicist, Robert Fisk and the M&G ignoring serious progressive engagement, little of the debate that has characterised the American scene has been available to South African readers.