A judiciary in transition requires the leadership of Sandile Ngcobo, writes <b>Richard Calland</b>.
Trevor Manuel has a giant task ahead of the Durban climate change talks and he seems sufficiently angry to take on powerful interest groups.
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/ 25 February 2011
For Jacob Zuma a possible dilemma presents itself. Zuma visited the Libyan tyrant at least once and presumably it wasn’t to drink tea.
This may be the year in which, on the corruption front, South Africa faces its "TRC moment" writes <b>Richard Calland</b>
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/ 8 December 2010
Wikileaks is a symptom of the recalibration of global power relations.
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/ 19 November 2010
Perhaps it is Fifa World Cup syndrome — a combination of complacency and a blasé attitude — or just South Africans’ tendency to wake up late to big things, but at the moment there is absolutely no apparent recognition of the importance, scale and intensity of the event that South Africa will be hosting in a year’s time.
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/ 22 October 2010
<strong>Richard Calland</strong> says: "Something potentially very remarkable, and very significant, is happening to civil society in South Africa"
The ‘liberal’ media isn’t responsible for any of our social ills and attacking it won’t solve them.
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/ 28 September 2010
Helen Zille, like the nincompoop ANC Youth League leader, should keep her eye firmly on 2019, argues <b>Richard Calland</b>.
Mongrel political organisations are always likely to yield mongrel politics and policy, says <b>Richard Calland</b>.