Marion Edmunds

Another regime change and the Cape Town city administration will collapse: that is the judgement of many people who work there. Off the record, it’s no less dire and compelling. In the civic centre, a senior city-council official confides across his desk that the municipal administration cannot withstand another political transition.

The prospect of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as their deputy president has rattled some ANC leaders, writes Marion Edmunds.

Armscor and the defence industry want to tap the Mandela magic abroad, and are putting pressure on the government to teach politicians the arms trade.

The Constitution has become a yardstick of the success and strength of the political parties … Marion Edmunds reports.

As acrimony over Mandela’s former prison warder’s controversial autobiography dies down, there is talk of a movie deal, reports Marion Edmunds