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Simelane's appointment under fire

Published 25 January 2010 - The Democratic Alliance says a tacit admission by president Jacob Zuma that the only document he considered before appointing advocate Menzi Simelane as NPA boss was a CV, supports its argument that Zuma's decision was 'irrational', reports The Star.
 

Winnie slams possible De Kock pardon

Published 25 January 2010 - ANC MP and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has criticised the possibility of former Vlakplaas head Eugene de Kock receiving a pardon, according to a newspaper report.
 

Give Verryn some credit: DA

Published 22 January 2010 - Suspended Johannesburg Central Methodist Church bishop Paul Verryn should be recognised for his humanity, says the DA.
 

DA toilets 'remind of apartheid'

Published 21 January 2010 - The ANC yesterday accused the DA of being "racial in its outlook" because it built toilets with no walls in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
 

I'm still a communist: Nzimande

Published 11 September 2009 - South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande, recently involved in a furore over his R1.1 million luxury official vehicle, on Friday said he is still a communist and committed to the working class."I have not abandoned my values. I...
 

SA and EU discuss climate change, Zim

Published 11 September 2009 - The co-chairmen of the European Union/South African summit meeting held here on Friday spent some time circling each other over the issue of climate change, without fully engaging.The prime minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is the current...
 

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The Wild Frontier

New Caster revelations are an appalling way to handle the issue

CLAIMS published in Australia’s Daily Telegraph newspaper that Caster Semenya has “failed” her gender test have shocked South...
 
Constitutionally Speaking

On public morality, law and death

As I was driving home yesterday, a guy in a big 4×4 – talking on his cellphone – rushed up behind me, flashed his lights, then...
 
Khaya Dlanga

A sunset clause for the IFP

By Percy Mabandu The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) by dissolving would be as good for our identity discourse as its merger with the ANC is bad for...
 
Constitutionally Speaking

Do we need a jury system?

Ronald Kevin Roberts (alias Ronald Suresh Roberts) published an intriguing – if wrongheaded – opinion piece in the Sowetan yesterday. In...
 
Khaya Dlanga

The curious case of the apartheid lawsuits

President Jacob Zuma is, as the cliche goes, the consummate politician. One of his most likeable qualities is that he is an instinctive politician....
 

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still try to cope with the death of my father :( . It is so hard. I miss him terribly :(((
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@MsZeeBabyy SO BRING HIM AROUND DA CORNER N DEN WE CHILL KK
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Careful with your investments ANC - Luyt

Audio: Spokesman for the Public Service Accountability Monitor, Derek Luyt, says political parties should...

Inside the Haiti crisis

Photos: UPDATED. WARNING: THIS GALLERY CONTAINS IMAGES OF VIOLENCE AND DEATH SOME VIEWERS MAY FIND...

Zapiro, Zuma and Lady Justice (Part 2)

Audio: Jonathan Shapiro does it again. In a cartoon in the Mail & Guardian on Friday he displays...

Pardons bill a shot in the dark

Audio: DA shadow minister of correctional services, James Selfe, has drafted a member's bill to check the...

Cope wants Motshekga sacked

Audio: The Congress of the People has called for the Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to step...

Pardons are Zuma's prerogative

Audio: Amid speculation that President Jacob Zuma is likely to grant fraudster Schabir Shaik and former...

Zuma's wedding

Video: President Jacob Zuma married his his third wife, Thobeka Mabhija in a traditional ceremony in...

Zuma weds fifth wife

Photos: Scores descended on President Jacob Zuma's home in Nkandla to see the president tie the knot with...

Zuma weds fifth wife

Photos: Scores descended on President Jacob Zuma's home in Nkandla to see the president tie the knot with...

Zuma weds fifth wife

Photos: Scores descended on President Jacob Zuma's home in Nkandla to see the president tie the knot with...

Tshabalala-Msimang hailed as icon

Audio: Former Health Minisister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was hailed as a struggle icon by Deputy President...

We are not scared of greedy yellow communists: Malema

Audio: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema said the youth league would fight any attempts by "greedy...

Surviving rape

Video: Two Zimbabwean women who were raped and infected with HIV/ Aids by the rapists alleged to be...

Malema walks out of SACP congress

Photos: ANC Youth Leader president Julius Malema left in a huff after he and Billy Masetlha were booed at...

Legacy of Prison Soccer, Part III

Video: Soccer is a game loved the world over. It’s fun to play and entertaining to watch. But, in South...

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Mondli Makhanya

Better recognise and manage the slings and arrows than deny them

Many of those who lined up before Judge Langa were victims of the regime that was ousted last year. They all lined up before Chief Justice Pius Langa...
 

Justice Malala

Cabinet a waste of taxes

Despite some inspired choices, jury still out on appointments IT IS worth remembering that former president Thabo Mbeki never fired a single member...
 

Justice Malala

SA democracy is working

THE people of Zimbabwe went to the polls on March 29 last year and, within three days, we knew that they wanted Morgan Tsvangirai to lead them. The...
 

Mondli Makhanya

Rulers, be warned: This new energy cannot be switched off

Outside of the ANC, you have a population that spoke with a very loud voice last Wednesday Outgoing KwaZulu-Natal premier Sbu Ndebele tells a story....
 

S’Thembiso Msomi

Our democracy is working

The power to improve our country is always in our hands THIS country works. With all the negativity that has accompanied this year’s election...
 

Mondli Makhanya

Lessons from an election that brought out our best and worst

The gatvol, the content, the disgruntled and the optimistic came out and said that democracy is the way of our nation. There are two women who have...