2002

One of the more striking findings of a recent Markinor survey on voter attitudes is a marked worsening in perceptions of the government?s record on transparency and…

FOR once in our region – in the case of Zimbabwe – journalists’ taste for hyperbole and doomsday simile appears justified. Our neighbour’s future is, indeed, on a razor’s edge.

IF deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad really believes there will be credible elections in Zimbabwe, why is he also begging the developed world not to back off the New Partnership…

President Thabo Mbeki’s state of the nation address next Friday, outlining the government’s agenda for the year, should be used as a kind of ceremony of national renewal

It has often been said that South Africa has an unusually high scandal threshold. It takes a mass murder, a rape of extreme brutality, or a body count of hundreds on the roads…

The most enduring legacy of South Africa’s R50-billion arms deal may turn out to be the terrible injury it has inflicted on our most important democratic institution – Parliament

Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s "tacit" licence to provincial health MECs to roll out Aids drug programmes in their provinces might be seen as a cautious step forward…

Last week’s <i>Mail & Guardian</i> report on the meeting between the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the African National Congress, at which unionists were accused of…

It is a time-honoured South African tradition ? as established as pap and boerewors. Appoint a commission of inquiry in order to seem to be doing something, and then hope the…

TO lose one court battle is a misfortune, but to lose four in a row looks like blind obedience to orders from the top, worthy of the Charge of the Light Brigade.

LET there be no doubt: South Africa’s response to last weekend’s election in Zimbabwe and its outcome will have a defining influence on the life chances of many millions of…