"My life has changed since 1994 because that is when we got freedom. Now my children, they don’t have to pay for school fees"
These corruption charges against Jacob Zuma are sad, but a person is not guilty until he is proven otherwise.
Gauteng DA leader Jack Bloom has asked the public protector to investigate Mashatile’s use of a house on the exclusive Thesen Island, Knysna.
Mandy Rossouw thinks that, despite all his sterling work in the past, Pieter Dirk-Uys should retire and enjoy the spoils of apartheid.
Postage stamps marking the tenure of President Kgalema Motlanthe are now being sold as a philatelic oddity on the internet.
Saki Macozoma chronicles his journey out of the ANC into the Congress of the People. Mandy Rossouw reports
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/ 24 February 2009
Mandy Rossouw finds out why South Africa so badly needs the good news
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/ 4 February 2009
The youth will get a whole new government agency this year. But will it be just more of the same, asks Mandy Rossouw.
Mandy Rossouw talked to the heads of the student representative councils at some of our major universities to find out what’s on their agenda.
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/ 26 January 2009
Bestselling author Vikas Swarup tells Mandy Rossouw why he’s still a bureaucrat at heart.
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/ 26 January 2009
Mandy Rossouw finds Jeremy Gordin’s Zuma biography underwhelming.
According to the diplomatic rumour mill in Pretoria, Obama is looking at Oprah Winfrey as the next United States ambassador to South Africa.
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/ 10 January 2009
The ANC plans to ensure that the practice of “jobs for pals” is something of the past and said it would review the government tendering system.
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/ 21 December 2008
The US has declared the Zimbabwe facilitation led by former president Thabo Mbeki as a failed process that has now run its course.
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/ 8 December 2008
Plan "seeks to ensure that the transition after the elections is smooth and does not disrupt service delivery"
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/ 5 December 2008
Former Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Balindlela may be sued for damages after allegedly using her powers in office to deal with political foes.
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/ 31 October 2008
The Shikota movement has enlisted one of South Africa’s most influential businesswomen as a key backer and fundraiser.
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/ 21 September 2008
The IEC is using April 14 as the expected election day, but the final date will have to be announced by President Thabo Mbeki.
Mandy Rossouw put a similar set of questions to both Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change to assess the political temperature.
With politicians harping on about human capital, it should come as no surprise that the SACP has put price tags on its most influential members.
There is still some jostling over Mugabe’s political future between Zanu-PF hawks and doves, as the document remains unsigned.
How do you measure suffering? And if you were to find that you have suffered the most, how do you get compensated for that?
The ANC Youth League is preparing to mobilise organisational and mass support for a Zuma presidency.
The fires of dissent catching at the coats of the ANC Youth League’s new leadership have been quelled.
Approval of Zuma as party president is hovering around 36% in urban areas, according to surveys conducted in February and April by research firm TNS.
More than 20Â 000 Mozambicans have fled South Africa in the wake of the attacks on foreigners and 25Â 000 Zimbabwean nationals have indicated that they wish to leave, according to the International Organisation for Migration. However, refugee lobbyists warn that the exodus may be temporary and the influx of foreigners to South Africa from neighbouring countries may soon resume.
Two weeks after the start of the xenophobic attacks in Gauteng, the government and police are still at a loss on how to handle the escalating violence. "The attacks keep on taking us by surprise. When we think the situation is under control something erupts somewhere else," an official from the Department of Home Affairs told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on Monday.
The African Union decided this week to send a high-level delegation to assess the political situation in Zimbabwe following allegations of violence and intimidation resulting from the long-delayed electoral results. The move came as the situation in Zimbabwe was discussed during a United Nations Security Council meeting.
African National Congress (ANC) MPs who are part of the Southern African Development Community observer mission to the parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe will have more freedom than before to give their honest assessment of the situation in that country.
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/ 22 February 2008
Provinces will receive R238-billion this year, a whopping 16% higher than last year’s allocation. By 2010/11, provincial budgets will have doubled on their 2004/05 levels. All increases to key portfolios outstrip inflation by significant margins. But will they spend it well?
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>In the aftermath of Tuesday’s top six election, several senior Cabinet ministers and their aides are now getting their CVs together and are suddenly looking forward to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> jobs section on Friday — they realise their future in a Zuma government and ANC is not looking very bright.
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/ 20 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>The shift to the left is not a dramatic U-turn, it is a gradual process which is already under way, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Wednesday. The SACP is hoping that the change in ANC leadership with the election of Jacob Zuma as ANC president will provide an opportunity for changing policy perspectives to be accommodated.