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A shove to the right

Not so long ago the ANC leadership saw it as a duty to enact that law, however unpopular it might have been, but that seems to have changed.

No stage fright for Mr President

President Jacob Zuma has become relaxed and confident in his role as the country’s leader.

A nightmare that turned into a dream

Diplomats and foreign correspondents say Jacob Zuma’s presidency is proving a pleasant surprise.

Zuma’s new spin team

The presidency has employed media aides who have not been in government before, writes Rapule Tabane.

New ministries strain the budget

Starting from scratch, new departments will have to assemble strategic plans and budgets.

Zuma makes ‘mall-marks’

Will historians looking back over Jacob Zuma’s five years in office talk about the ”mall-marks” — rather than hallmarks — of his administration?

The flip side of the race card

Thabo Mbeki lived in something of a racial hell, his skin constantly rubbed raw by the devils of colonialism and apartheid.

Spook nation

As a transport minister, accepting a gift from a group of road contractors Ndebele was risking seriously compromising himself.

Blade will have to whet himself

It’s been a while, dear readers, since we have had policy missives from the beloved department. And at last a little grist for the mill.

Zuma-ites eye higher tariff walls

Jacob Zuma’s new power brokers are signalling that a new trade regime is on the way.

Citizens assembled at the foot of the Union Buildings are treated to a Nando’s meal. Photograph: Lisa Skinner

Let them eat chicken

The inauguration of Jacob Zuma as South Africa’s fourth democratically elected president was really quite wonderful.

Governing against the tide

Women premiers appointed against provincial power-brokers’ wishes may face an uphill battle.

A building block to make Zuma’s legacy great

Besides being oppressive and wrong, the targeting of individuals, instead of targeting crime itself, fails to achieve a credible crime-fighting result

Dear President Zuma …

President elect Jacob Zuma has his work cut out for him if responses from Mail & Guardian Online readers are anything to go by.

Bribery & inauguration

While president elect Jacob Zuma has been preaching the anti-corruption gospel on the election trail, some of his friends seem to need converting.

History’s airbrush

Were Zuma to have wished for the better part of the past decade that Thabo Mbeki did not exist, he could be forgiven for it.

Are you ‘big’ enough, Mr President?

A women’s rights activist is ambivalent about attending Jacob Zuma’s inauguration. She writes him an open letter.

The battle for Zuma’s soul …

Judge John Hlophe expects elevation to the Constitutional Court and Sandile Ngcobo is positioning himself for the role of chief justice.

Zuma: We mean business

South Africa’s Parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president, celebrating the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherd.

Roll your own Cabinet

Lynley Donnelly considers what JZ has to do to cook up his own Cabinet.