In last week’s edition of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>, Drew Forrest raised the important question of the relationship of the Constitutional Court to the executive and legislative branches of the government. To date the government has behaved commendably when it has been reversed.
It was with great expectation that the ANC was overwhelmingly returned to power in 1999. The party had discharged itself honourably in the first term, establishing democracy and passing progressive legislation.
The European Parliament will be asked to pressurise Botswana to immediately restore water supplies to the Basarwa people (Bushmen) still living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Mario Masuku, president of the People’s United Democratic Movement, the main opposition party in Swaziland, was on Thursday acquitted of sedition charges after nearly a year in jail. Speaking from Mbabane, Masuku’s instructing attorney, Paul Shilubane, said: ”We are very happy”.
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Fiction is orderly but life is a mess, says South African-born author Lynn Freed, whose new novel is just out. She spoke to Pat Schwartz.
Lapses in corporate governance at Umgeni Water have cast doubt on claims by Mike Muller, Director General of Water Affairs and Forestry, that the troubled utility is "back on track". Muller’s assurances were given in response to a <i>Mail & Guardian</i> disclosure.
The ANC this week agreed to join a civil society march against poverty and joblessness at the World Summit on Sustainable Development — while putting the boot into aspects of the anti-globalisation movement. It makes the point that the global civil society lobby is a "contested terrain".
Was last week a particularly dull one for the news gleaners? Or have we South Africans finally entirely lost the plot? I am talking about the over-the-top display of ersatz patriotism that has followed Pieter van Zyl’s one-man "invasion" of the field.