Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s promotion to the position of minister of energy seems a bizarre move.
It is a scandal that South Africa is doing nothing to rein in Swaziland’s King Mswati and his despotic lieutenants.
Looking back over 20 years of democracy through the eyes of the "Mail & Guardian".
Cabinet ministers and government officials have been protecting Jacob Zuma since the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane conference, at the expense of the people.
The party lists for office bearers and MPs will be scrutinised by members between now and the national election in early May.
The ANC’s pre-election vetting process to rid itself of corruption has to be fair and impartial to be effective.
The Oscar Pistorius trial has highlighted the plight of witnesses in court cases, attacks on whom compromise our justice system.
Years after Snuki Zikalala’s reign at the SABC, Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s tenure has become a bad parody of the kind of transformation people want to see.
Even if the DA’s march is silly, the ANC should not endorse Umkhonto weSizwe "vets" turning the streets around Luthuli House into a "no-go" zone.
Don’t dismiss Zille’s courtship of Ramphele as an electoral gimmick. It’s part of a plan to make the DA more acceptable to black South Africans.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, PSL head Irvin Khoza and Safa president Danny Jordaan need to work together to save South African football.
The ANC is likely to win next year’s election, so the NEC must decide at its candidates’ list conference if the president or the people come first.
A court ruling that SA must look into allegations that exiled Zimbabwean activists were tortured in Zimbabwe in 2007 could well set a precedent.
Was it a surprise that a half-built shopping mall collapsed in Tongaat? No. Could it have been avoided? Yes.
The use of the police, intelligence services and NPA to fight personal, professional and political battles has reached crisis proportions in SA.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has little room to manoeuvre despite his tough medium-term budget cuts.
The labour union federation is the only one ‘flabbergasted’ at the IMF saying inflexible labour laws in South Africa are hampering economic growth.
President Jacob Zuma can be eerily mesmerising but he also holds some rather eclectic views and sometimes expresses them bizarrely.
For as long as the policy conflicts and ideological battles of the alliance are fought by means of the knife, uncertainty will continue.
Culture can hold people together, providing a sense of belonging. Like religion, it gives traditional communities a set of social rules to live by.
Labour unrest that has taken new and more challenging forms is compounding the effects of slumping commodity prices.
The Polokwane conference taught us what we thought were the physics of the 21st-century ANC.
The run-up to Mangaung has seen vicious infighting, organisational chaos and accusations of fraud and manipulation at ANC branch level.
Endless stories are recounted by garnishee administration companies about staff members going home empty-handed on payday.
Some of the president’s private arrangements demand public scrutiny, because they pose real risks for him and for crucial areas of governance.
In the little death of democracy that is the finalisation of the secrecy Bill, there is a kernel of hope – an invigorated civil society.
Hysteria and paranoia. That is what leaders of the ANC and the SACP accuse the press of when concerns about threats to freedom of speech are raised.
If you were looking for moral clarity this week, the smoke-dimmed sunlight of the Cape winelands was not the place to find it.
South African political language can be baffling, but the most recent utterances on "Nkandlagate" surely mark a new level of tortuous sophistry.
A priority crimes litigation unit exists in the National Prosecuting Authority and has a mandate to prosecute apartheid-era human rights violators.
South Africans should be able to understand that what is legally permissible and what is wise or constructive are not the same.
Progress had been made on the Protection of State Information Bill. Not enough to render it safe for democracy, but progress nonetheless.