News/Politics

To argue that there is no judicial solution to provocative sloganeering is not to contend that there is no political solution.

On Friday, the BBC reported that Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s prime minister and head of the opposition MDC, had declared support for Robert Mugabe’s refusal to protect gay rights in Zimbabwe’s new constitution. If his comments are accurate, they represent yet another step backwards in the long walk towards tolerance and respect for human rights in […]

According to informed sources former president Thabo Mbeki will be running for the post of African National Congress president at the ANC’s policy and elective conferences in 2012. Mbeki, who was replaced by current President Jacob Zuma as ANC president in December 2007 and national president in 2009, is of the view that at age […]

Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day. The day when newspapers try to catch us out with whacky stories and tall tales. The day when fiendish hacks ply their wily trade to fool our pre-caffeinated brains. Sucking us in with official looking headlines, well-crafted copy and photoshopped images. Feeding us fantastical “facts” that have us reaching for […]

I am at Moses Mabhida Stadium for a tour, when the cute journo I’m chatting to spots a giant leopard bobbing his fractious head for a couple of photographers to our immediate left. “Ah, first Sepp Blatter, then Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and now the famous Zakumi, esteemed World Cup mascot dressed in a long […]

I just read an article suggesting that South Africa’s homeless will be moved out of the cities and into the townships to keep the streets cleaner during the World Cup. It seems that the inconvenience of having people sleeping on the streets has become too much to bear and instead they should be shipped out […]

By Andy Carolin Contrary to popular perception, opposition parties in South Africa actually intend on making themselves relevant. It was with cautious trepidation that I heard about the possibility of an unspecified cooperation between the DA, ID, UDM and Cope. What will loom ominously above any collaboration between them is the fact that each of […]

All journalists who would in future dare criticise the ANCYL and its leaders, must make sure that they do not have skeletons in the cupboard lest they get investigated by the league. Anyone who doubted that we are descending onto a banana republic must have their doubts cleared up by this extraordinary development. With all […]

It is Zuma’s job to lead the country. Not to sprint between fiery communities, spreading avuncular reassurance like a fire-blanket over conflagrations.

Jaap Cilliers SC, counsel for Jackie Selebi, confirmed at the conclusion of the evidence given by former intelligence coordinator Barry Gilder that the accused’s legal team intends bringing an application for his discharge at the close of the state’s case. The state thereafter closed their case after reading certain evidence, which has been agreed between […]

Recent reaction to the Greek economic crisis was striking in its dissimilarity to the reaction to Dubai’s economic woes in 2009. Dubai was effectively written off as a nation doomed to permanent decline whereas Greece has been rallied around. I guess it really does pay to be part of the European Union. German Chancellor Merkel […]