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/ 12 February 2004
The complaint by opposition parties that South Africa is fast becoming a one-party state is stubbornly not going away, and is set to dominate the forthcoming election.
In this view, the African National Congress is becoming too powerful and is likely to subvert South Africa’s democracy, running the country into the ground in the process. Some people — tongue in cheek — claim this has already happened.
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/ 3 November 2003
Science has long proven false the notion of the existence of “human races”. Biologically we are members of the same species. Our differences of skin colour, body shape, hair and eye colour are simply physical variations, similar to differences found in other species of living things. Colour differences in cattle, for example, do not imply a fundamental difference between them: they are still cattle.
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/ 24 January 2003
Numerous cases of corruption, especially within state-owned enterprises, should force us to pose serious questions about the capability and viability of the black middle class to transform society. This is more so because it, conventional wisdom holds, is the saviour of the new South Africa.