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latest news & developmentsGrowing pains in the colourful country
Ferial Haffajee looks at the latest book to offer an explanation for the mess we’re in
Political shifts threaten BEE
Black business is going into this election more politically diverse than it has been since the end of apartheid, writes Ferial Haffajee.
Ironically conservative
Ferial Haffajee asks whether the government’s stance on cultural freedom ignores equal rights for women.
‘We had one of those’
What, I wonder, has become of the audacity of our hope? Could it possibly be true that nations get the leaders they deserve?
Of shooting and falling stars
Ferial Haffajee, together with <i>M&G</i> reporters, delivers this year’s report card on government ministers’ perfomance.
Where are our Palins?
Our interesting female politicians are almost all in the opposition. Why is that?
The SABC go-around
Is it fair to say the SABC has fallen apart because the centre cannot hold, to quote WB Yeats?
Milking the love
Ferial Haffajee on why she agreed to model for Clover.
Have we become too grand?
Remember the days when, as inaugural transport minister, Mac Maharaj insisted that he would continue to drive his beat-up old Jetta? It struck a chord, for it spoke of a…
The state, revolution and rhetoric
The thought of South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Blade Nzimande as minister of finance sends shivers down my spine. Not because I fear a Red Fiscus (provided it stays…
23 days that shook our world
In 23 days, the Jacob Zuma rape trial has shaken our world. Regardless of the outcome, we are in an altered state. The political damage is incalculable, with the ruling African…
White is not the new black
"The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is a muckraking newspaper. Ours is not a sober newspaper like the <i>Financial Times</i> (though I wish we could occasionally imitate its sobriety) or…
Tickle our tummies, hear us purr
The SABC’s newsreader purred like a pussycat when she announced last year that the government was giving itself a Christmas present: nine military transport Airbuses at a cost of…
‘We’ve got the balls of elephants’
Schabir Shaik will tell the Durban High Court next week that there was nothing improper in his relationship with Deputy President Jacob Zuma, but that they were bound together by…
Africa in the year 2025
A ground-breaking study by the United Nations Development Programme has sought to predict what life in Africa could be like by 2025. Contributions to the study came from more…