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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.