Opinion

South Africa is home to a culture of transphobia

cassandra roxburgh 17 Jan 2022

Two M&G articles defending trans-exclusionary views draw on the insidious anti-trans rhetoric flourishing in the UK, but ignore our country’s constitutional protections

What South Africa’s excessive rains mean for food prices

Wandile Sihlobo 17 Jan 2022

Radical economic transformation ‘bullshit’ won’t change lives of poor

Andile Zulu 16 Jan 2022

‘A weird new sort of fascism’

Drew Forrest 16 Jan 2022

Small businesses must be proactive in their tax affairs

Iman Rappetti 16 Jan 2022

An assurance we can believe, please

Staff Reporter - 4 Jul 2002

Well, the grubby crazy truth is almost out. Back in 1998 President Thabo Mbeki gave South Africans a categorical assurance. It dealt with Virodene, a loony anti-Aids remedy with no credibility among scientists, which was already known to be based on a toxic industrial solvent...

Reform the farmer

Staff Reporter - 20 Jun 2002

On the face of it, the chanting of "Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!" at Peter Mokaba's funeral last weekend -- and its indulgence by African National Congress leaders -- ran directly counter to the government's professed reconciliation policy.

Still Saul, not Paul

Staff Reporter - 9 May 2002

Those sceptical about the government's alleged Damascene conversion on HIV/Aids, and who fear dissident backsliding, will be worried by the nevirapine appeal in the Constitutional Court...

Even rats enjoy a flutter

Staff Reporter - 11 Jan 2002

She said to me quite plainly: 'If I lose I pay you a million dollars. If you lose you agree to have two large...

US has a critical role

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

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.

A heavy responsibility

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

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.

Arms and the MPs

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

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

Failing Zimbabwe

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

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?

Enough paranoia

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

Last week's <i>Mail & Guardian</i> report on the meeting between the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the African National Congress, at which unionists were accused of scheming to undermine President Thabo Mbeki, went down like a concrete balloon

High shock threshold

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

It has often been said that South Africa has an unusually high scandal threshold. It takes a mass murder, a rape of extreme brutality, or a body count of hundreds on the roads for anyone to pay attention

Editorial: Morkelgate

Staff Reporter - 1 Jan 2002

The media fest over the relationship between the Democratic Alliance's Western Cape leader, Gerald Morkel, and millionaire fugitive from German justice Jurgen Harksen partly reflects the life and death battle between the DA and the New National Party in the Western Cape.

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