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Rewriting the history of transition the first step down a dangerous path

21. February 2010

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By Mondli Makhanya – Sunday Times 21st February 2010 At the height of the battle between Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky, the former was doing everything in his power to ensure that Lenin’s mantle passed on to him. In later years, having won the struggle, Stalin went to the extreme lengths of airbrushing Trotsky out of photographs [...]

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Zuma Must not allow JSC’s Hlophe mistep to get uglier

2. September 2009

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Allister Sparks Published: 2009/09/02 THE decision by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) not to refer the complaint of gross misconduct against Cape Judge President John Hlophe to a formal hearing and to find him not guilty is disturbing, but hardly surprising. It has been apparent from the start of this drawn-out saga that there has [...]

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Criticising the Crisis in Education

19. July 2009

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What to make of the war of words that has erupted between Jonathan Jansen and Jessie Duarte? Briefly, ANC spokesperson Duarte is demanding that recently installed University of the Free State Rector Jonathan Jansen apologise for calling Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga a “lazy and incompetent minister, if one takes into account her record as [...]

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Govt committed to halving unemployment – Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source

14. July 2009

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PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA Jul 14 2009 14:25 The government is still committed to halving unemployment and poverty by 2014, despite the global economic downturn, National Planning Commission Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday. Outlining the government’s Medium Strategic Framework (MTSF) in Pretoria, Manuel said its main focus was to minimise the impact of the economic crisis on the [...]

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Africa: Zuma is Out of Step With History

30. June 2009

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Comfort Ero and Piers Pigou.All Africa News 29 June 2009 Just ahead of this week’s African Union summit in Libya, South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has advocated an old and discredited approach for dealing with African heads of state facing international justice, write Comfort Ero and Piers Pigou.When a leader of South Africa’s ruling African National [...]

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Doctors claim wage offer is misleading

28. June 2009

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Chandré Prince Sunday Times June 27 Most packages are ‘small change’ Militant South African doctors, angered by the government’s “Mickey Mouse” wage offer, are now intent on shutting down the country’s public health system. Strike action, which this week crippled medical services in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, is set to intensify and spread throughout the country if [...]

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President Zuma State of the Nation Address

3. June 2009

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State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 3 June 2009 Honourable Speaker; Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP; Deputy President of the Republic, Kgalema Motlanthe Former President of the Republic, Thabo Mbeki, Our [...]

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The Resurrection of India’s Congress Party — A Worrying Road Ahead

25. May 2009

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by Mitu Sengupta   On May 16th, some 60 percent of India’s 714 million-strong electorate delivered a definitive victory to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), giving it a commanding 262 seats in India’s 543-member parliament.  The UPA’s principal opponent, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), took a severe beating, dropping down to 160 seats from [...]

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The Elections Are Over – The War on the Poor Continues

20. May 2009

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Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Tuesday, 19 May 2009 Now that the election is over and the politicians have finished hunting for positions they are running away from the people. It is impossible for a poor community to get a meeting with a politician. They only send in the police to break the people’s homes and to [...]

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Problems and uncertainties in SA´s Cabinet of compromises

11. May 2009

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Anthony Butler Business Day, 11 May 2009 SELECTING a Cabinet appears deceptively easy. What could be more straightforward for a new president than to choose ministers on the basis of ability, experience, and ideology? Unfortunately, as President Jacob Zuma demonstrated yesterday, a president preparing a new team must make difficult compromises and take hard decisions for [...]

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