Another week, another education study that suggests how the country’s largest teacher union cripples the wellbeing of South Africa’s learners.
For two years, the <i>Guardian</i>, has been chipping away at a media ethics scandal emanating from Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday tabloid.
Zwelinzima Vavi is right: Cosatu’s increasingly vocal opposition to the Protection of Information Bill was enormously important.
You get the leaders you deserve, according to an old bit of political wisdom. At present, we are in danger of getting the leaders our leaders deserve.
Trade union pension and provident funds control billions of rands, the oversight of which is too often carried out by a small network.
Between 2005 and 2009 South Africa went through what amounted to a constitutional crisis.
When President Jacob Zuma announced his Cabinet there was some curiosity about how economic policy would work.
The decision to force through anti-democratic secrecy laws marks a striking retreat from SA’s post-1994 legislative tradition.
The most hotly contested local elections are now over and all the political parties are putting their own spin on what’s been a bruising contest.
The open toilet debacle, dirty as it is, creates an opportunity for voters. The <i>M&G</i> weighs in.
It is hard to be sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, despite his pitiless assassination at the hands of United States special forces.
Various factors in our politics make the ANC and its leadership impervious to ordinary democratic accountability mechanisms, the <i>M&G</i> weighs in.
The headlines were grabbed by bodyguards with assault rifles, by some of the ANC’s most credible leaders coming to the defence of Malema.
The <i>M&G</i> reported that officials were unhappy about what they saw as excessive spending by Sicelo Shiceka.
The wars that turned South Africa’s intelligence services into a political battleground are over for now.
Members of Parliament were apparently "visibly shocked" when the head of the SIU laid out the sheer scale of graft that is under investigation.
Last year a SA delegation met Gaddafi with a simple purpose: to sell massive quantities of the most lethal weaponry.
We’ve been hearing it since the early years of his campaign for presidency: Jacob Zuma is a people-pleaser.
When the BCCSA ruled that the SABC had breached its code in reporting unsubstantiated allegations against the <i>M&G</i>, our reaction was delight.
When Hugh Glenister began his campaign against the dissolution of the Scorpions, he got a lot of attention.
In the past 15 years SA trade unions have taken to investing money from monthly subscriptions in business ventures which, they say is a benefit.
South African business tends to be embarrassed about publicly raising constitutional arguments in its defence.
It isn’t very long ago that the <i>M&G</i> was in the vanguard of criticism of the public protector
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/ 24 February 2011
The most enduring legacy of Pravin Gordhan’s 2011 budget may be something less tangible.
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/ 18 February 2011
Another week, another service delivery protest, another round of arguments about the causes.
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/ 18 February 2011
It is hard, in South Africa, to make yourself universally detested. The <i>M&G</i> weighs in on the heated debate regarding toll roads around Gauteng.
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/ 11 February 2011
It seemed pretty clear that jobs would be the principal theme of the State of the Nation Address.
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/ 4 February 2011
The protests blazing across the Arab world in the past three weeks represent a radical opening up in the frozen politics of the Middle East.
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/ 28 January 2011
Two years since he was booted out of the Union Buildings, Thabo Mbeki still seems to be setting the agenda on some crucial foreign policy questions.
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/ 21 January 2011
The <i>M&G</i> this week makes it clearer than ever that unregulated party funding and political deployment can become an instrument for corruption.