Ferial Haffajee asks whether the government’s stance on cultural freedom ignores equal rights for women.
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/ 24 February 2009
At the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s critical thinking forum in Cape Town two weeks ago, the president’s state of the nation address scored mixed reviews.
At the M&G and Xstrata’s recent Critical Thinking Forum on youth politics, it was the crowd — as much as the panel — that stole the show.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday high levels of indebtedness were a strain on the economy.
South African households had to scale down unsustainable levels of debt, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday.
A world-renowned scholar of public policy, Yehezkel Dror, recently emphasised that policy and politics ”closely interact and cannot be separated”.