Despite the recent teachers’ strike, things have gone well for Naledi Pandor, the Minister of Education. But surely her predecessors will have told Pandor that dragons, far more fierce than some vice-chancellors, lurk in the gloomy waters around South Africa’s universities. After 10 years of "torrid government interference" in universities, Peter Vale offers six of the best to the new Minister of Education.
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/ 26 September 2003
With the end of apartheid, many hoped that life for the people of Southern Africa would begin to yield something entirely different from the unhappy past. Unfortunately things have not turned out this way and the daily news from the hole in the region we still call Zimbabwe underlines this. So, what did happen to Southern Africa’s post-apartheid moment?
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/ 14 September 2001
The US needs to reconsider its simple-minded approach to the world.
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/ 20 October 1995
Madiba’s speech to the UN could reflect well on South =20 Africa’s future, writes Peter Vale
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/ 9 December 1988
A non-interview with the banned Govan Mbeki about the day when he last saw Nelson Mandela.