It is a time-honoured South African tradition ? as established as pap and boerewors. Appoint a commission of inquiry in order to seem to be doing something, and then hope the problem will go away.
THE proposed renaming of Northern Province as Limpopo seems to have got the rightwingers of the verrenoord very hot under the collar. When Oom Krisjan received his copy of the Zoutpansberger of February 8, he was surprised to see the extent of the problem facing whites in that region…
Now that Uncle Bob has "won" the election up north, his team are already planning ways to avoid the next. South Africa might have broken ranks with the Commonwealth (not to mention common sense) by declaring Zimbabwe’s elections to have been credible, but the condemnation of the rest of the world is a burden sometimes….
TO lose one court battle is a misfortune, but to lose four in a row looks like blind obedience to orders from the top, worthy of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
WITH the United States gearing up for war against Iraq and the growing risk that the spiralling Israeli-Palestinian conflict may spill over into the whole region, the Middle East stands at a crossroads.
That it should come to this. The African National Congress, once the pride of democrats the world over for the levels of humanity and intelligence it brought to the struggle against apartheid, is in danger of becoming the very converse of all it used to represent.
LET there be no doubt: South Africa’s response to last weekend’s election in Zimbabwe and its outcome will have a defining influence on the life chances of many millions of people in our region.
FOR once in our region – in the case of Zimbabwe – journalists’ taste for hyperbole and doomsday simile appears justified. Our neighbour’s future is, indeed, on a razor’s edge.
The most enduring legacy of South Africa’s R50-billion arms deal may turn out to be the terrible injury it has inflicted on our most important democratic institution – Parliament
IF deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad really believes there will be credible elections in Zimbabwe, why is he also begging the developed world not to back off the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) if things go wrong?