South Africa has had a mixed bag of environmental ministers over the past 30 years and, bar a few, most have taken the environmental agenda forward
ANC veteran Pallo Jordan believes former president Thabo Mbeki’s 30-page paper on land expropriation does not enrich the land discourse
"Our president has asked that we send him, maybe one of the places we should dispatch him to is to revisit the way art is funded".
The poet fought injustice wherever he found it and became a key figure in the ANC-in-exile’s arts and culture department
Shivambu now has a master’s degree. It’s an actual qualification, and so we wondered what advice he’d give to those who wished they had a degree.
Despite Pallo Jordan’s resignation following reports of falsifying academic credentials, he is not history, writes the anti-apartheid activist.
UFS rector and vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen says Jordan should have an honorary doctorate and commended him for stepping down voluntarily.
Pallo Jordan owes his supporters some explanation. Resigning is not coming clean.
We don’t know how many people are shaking in their boots now: they should come out now – before the qualifications police hound them too.
If he did indeed once sell his soul to the devil, Pallo Jordan has made up for it spectacularly by coming clean and resigning, writes Verashni Pillay.
Many senior South African politicians have lied blatantly – only to be exposed by the law – so Pallo Jordan marks a break of sorts with the past.
ANC veteran Pallo Jordan has resigned as the ruling party’s MP, following a newspaper report exposing his academic qualifications as a lie.
Embattled ANC MP Pallo Jordan has resigned from Parliament following reports that he faked his qualifications.
Pallo Jordan’s alleged falsification of his qualifications should be kept in perspective, argues Danny Schechter.
The "Dr" Pallo Jordan row should make us question the value we attach to status, position and wealth.
Pallo Jordan. Phumzile van Damme. It’s tempting to think newspapers are out to make black South Africans look bad, writes Verashni Pillay.
Dr Pallo Jordan, chairperson of the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation, remembers Adelaide Tambo.
After 100 years the ANC lives. But can it still lead, asks <strong>Pallo Jordan</strong>.
ANC veteran Pallo Jordan has criticised his party’s media appeals tribunal plans and the Protection of Information Bill at a debate.
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/ 27 October 2010
Debating the Protection of Information Bill "hysterically" would not help people who had concerns about it, ANC veteran Pallo Jordan said on Tuesday.
For some, the announcement of Jacob Zuma’s new executive comes with a sigh of relief, for others it dashed their high hopes, writes Mandy Rossouw.
SA’s first music hub will empower artists to become a force to be reckoned with in the market, Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan said on Friday.
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/ 16 February 2009
Pallo Jordan’s attack on the media for exposing Kgalema Motlanthe’s extramarital affairs is full of straw men.
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/ 20 October 2008
Mature leadership requires the implementation of the post-Polokwane pledge of reconciliation and inclusivity.
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/ 10 October 2008
‘There are lots of nuts in the ANC who shoot their mouths off’, Pallo Jordan tells Mandy Rossouw.