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latest news & developmentsHuge merger wobbles a lopsided world
Xstrata and Glencore to go ahead with merger.
Foreign doctors hold out a lifeline
Without their presence South Africa’s national health insurance cannot be implemented successfully to provide quality healthcare.
Ratings warning a red flag
A downgrade because of rampant expenditure will have severe fiscal implications for SA.
Language of division and diversion
Afrikaans identity politics at Stellenbosch distracts from real challenges, writes a group of the university’s academics.
Muslim women need protection beyond sharia law
The Muslim Marriages Bill has highlighted the problem of the many Muslims who live their lives according to sharia law when it suits them.
We reject Israel’s violations of international law
As Jews and South Africans, we have noted with deep concern the report of John Dugard, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories…
Africa’s most repressive tyrant
United States President George W Bush’s recent trip to Africa may have catapulted Charles Taylor’s Liberia to front-page headlines across the world, but a more serious,…