The US embassy in South Africa decided in 2001 that it would deal with a "prickly, hyper-sensitive, shrill and defensive" president Thabo Mbeki.
Formerly stable Gauteng is the latest province to succumb to the politics of loyalty.
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/ 5 November 2010
Why, if service delivery is the issue, are some ministers still in office?
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/ 5 November 2010
Questionable Cabinet moves show that improved service delivery was the last thing on Zuma’s mind.
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/ 25 October 2010
"In the most significant Media Freedom Week since 1994, the South African media is caught in a moral dilemma," writes <b>Rapule Tabane</b>
A showdown over the launch date and a lack of resources appear to have been what prompted the five most senior Âeditors at the New Age to resign.
Thabo Mbeki has indirectly criticised the Mo Ebrahim Foundation’s decision not to award its governance prize to a deserving African leader.
As first-year politics students in the 1990s, one of the questions we had to interrogate was whether political studies could be considered a science.
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> spoke to Blade Nzimande, the SACP general secretary, during the ANC conference.
<i>M&G</i> political editor <b>Rapule Tabane</b> predicts who the key players will be at the African National Congress national general council (NGC).