In media coverage of the strikes, no effort has been spared to demonise the National Union of Mineworkersm, writes reader Mathew Blatchford.
The ‘big interview’ with Richard Brasher, the new chief executive of Pick n Pay , should have been a big interrogation, says a reader.
Paul Mashatile and some of our comrades believe in the fallacy that ANC delegates will discuss how our leaders have performed since 2007.
The wave of violent strikes that has engulfed South Africa is a clear indication of the deep class discontent felt by the working masses.
The Hadith are indeed secondary to the Qur’an, but the Qur’an says nothing about Aisha’s age at the time the marriage was consummated.
Professor Daniel Plaatjies is quite correct to draw attention to the need to professionalise the public administration, writes Paul Hoffman.
I am sure all thinking South Africans are as shocked as I am by the Cabinet’s decision to green-light fracking, writes Michael MacCarthy.
Thank you to Andile Mng-xitama for "A dream not deferred, but defiled" (September 14).
Mamphela Ramphele’s article, is but another reminder of how far backwards we have gone in "the new South Africa", writes Jeff Rudin.
Reading ‘Pastrami and apartheid’ gives the impression that there is only one side to this conflict and only one narrative, says areader.
Tina Joemat-Pettersson wishes to place on record that the report "Department donates ‘gift’ for Zuma’s project" is completely incorrect.
We need to fix the state schools where most of the kids are.
The decision to charge the Marikana miners with murder was based on the same logic that was used to convict taxi-driver Jacob Humphries of murder.
Your article "Angola’s Dos Santos wants another term to rebuild" (August 31) got me thinking.
The various Palestinian-solidarity formations in South Africa are not anti-Israel or anti-Jewish. They seek justice and fairness for all.
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The organisation advocating the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel must be pretty desperate.
Damian Garside’s thoughts on the Marikana miners.
Louise Redvers’s article gave a forum to the organisations of the pro-democracy movement in Swaziland to present views and programmes for change.
"An end of an error," I suggested as a newspaper headline and the journalists I was with immediately agreed.
The national plan entails spending a bit more than 10% of South Africa’s entire annual wealth and its gross domestic product.
Readers express their views about the events that unfolded in Marikana last week.
Allow me to welcome the unanimous re-election of Blade Nzimande and Jeremy Cronin to the leadership of the SACP, writes Thabang Mokoena-Maseko
Readers expresss their conern over recent Mail & Guardian reports.
Readers express their views about the Zapiro cartoon which appeared in last week’s Mail & Guardian.
The lofty debate about the Traditional Courts Bill conceals its likely impact on the poverty of rural people, writes Chris Zithulele Mann.
Joseph Stiglitz’s advice sounds similar to that of the old-time salesmen selling snake oil as a cure for everything.
I am one of those who feel that the controversial Brett Murray painting, The Spear, denigrates our president.
Letters to the Editor: 3 May – 9 May 2012