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/ 19 September 2008
Last week’s judgement in the Jacob Zuma corruption trial has several potentially far-reaching implications.
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/ 16 September 2008
The South African Communist Party has taken a swipe at senior ANC members who left the army to make money from arms sales.
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/ 15 September 2008
Drop Zuma charges, say ANC war veterans, or face social and economic turmoil.
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/ 14 September 2008
With celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the UDF barely over, another broad-based, left-leaning civil society grouping having been launched.
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/ 14 September 2008
Gwede Mantashe insists Cosatu and SACP members will share 20% of places on the ANC election lists.
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/ 12 September 2008
The projection of an argument for a legal or political settlement of the Zuma case is a caricature and an instance of intolerance.
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/ 11 September 2008
When the political will to deal with elite crimes falters, a culture of impunity takes hold.
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/ 11 September 2008
In the first of a two-part series, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, argues that capital must be disciplined.
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/ 9 September 2008
The M&G has become useful to those who are worried about the growing influence of the working class and the poor on ANC policies.
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/ 6 September 2008
The league’s membership has dropped dramatically over the past four years, from more than 500 000 to 317 000.
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/ 6 September 2008
Delegates to the Greater KwaDukuza conference allegedly received preferential treatment, depending on who they supported.
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/ 5 September 2008
President Thabo Mbeki presided over a rather grey administration.The groupthink he encouraged has been disastrous for our country.
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/ 3 September 2008
Embattled ANC president Jacob Zuma has drawn support from a rather surprising quarter — the born-again National Party.
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/ 2 September 2008
Pitched battles between different factions of the ANC in the Northern Cape delayed the start of the party’s provincial conference last week.
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/ 1 September 2008
Two senior ANC officials in the Western Cape are being investigated for allegedly doctoring and then leaking a party audit.
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/ 1 September 2008
The independence of the judiciary is generally regarded as being an essential component of democratic government. There should be no doubt about this.
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/ 1 September 2008
We must assert the truth in a rational manner and refrain from using exaggerated language in so doing.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
The event in question was the launch of the Post-Polokwane Conversations, a series of "round table discussions" beginning in Durban.
The party’s 2009 election strategy begins in earnest this weekend and it will need to surmount numerous internal battles.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> strongly disagrees with Kgalema Motlanthe’s rather feeble reasons for wanting the Scorpions disbanded.
Consensus in the ruling tripartite alliance, the private sector and parts of the intelligentsia are building towards the need for a deal of some sort.
Consensus in the ruling tripartite alliance, the private sector and parts of the intelligentsia are building towards the need for a deal of some sort.
In one corner, ”members of the Hidden Hand” who moonlight as the ”demonic forces of the dark”. In the other, ”Mugabe and his evil warriors”.
The business community feels the state had more than five years to put together charges against Zuma.
The ANC has become fixated on the figure of the ”Great Leader” and this has contributed towards letting the populist genie out of the bottle.
Six managers in the parliamentary office of the ANC have been suspended over allegations that they misappropriated money and created fictitious posts.
ANC leaders prepare to push for legislation against prosecution of a sitting president, write Rapule Tabane and Mandy Rossouw.
South Africa’s Navi Pillay takes up the post of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September.