Opinion

22 May 2013 ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe apparently feels it is unnecessary for President Jacob Zuma to explain his relationship with the Gupta family to...
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A name worth dropping

22 May 2013 NAME-dropping is the new buzzword. Justice Minister Jeff Radebe used the term on Sunday at the Guptagate media briefing, where directors-general...
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Sweeten BEE cake

21 May 2013 Impatience with improving the economic lot of black South Africans is understandable, given the relative poverty that especially black Africans find...
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Stand-out people can touch lives

21 May 2013 Two different men, Alex Ferguson and Vuyo Mbuli, are in my thoughts. I only met one of them, and briefly.
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Ruthlessness required

20 May 2013 Why does the ANC govern so badly? There are many good people in the party and one wonders why those in government deliver such poor administration...
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Call those who’re old and alone

20 May 2013 I’ve mentioned Nanna here before – my step-grandmother who lives alone in the little flat she’s occupied for some 35 years, cooking, cleaning,...
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More like the PW's crew each day

18 May 2013 White South Africans might scoff and fume, but President Jacob Zuma is absolutely right. It’s the fault of apartheid.
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Free, but you end up paying

17 May 2013 What is it about free stuff that simply gets us going? It does not matter how many zeros your pay cheque has or if you do not even receive an...
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Halls of deception

17 May 2013 I could not help but gloat when I saw the photo of enraged anti-Israel Wits student protesters, confronting their newly appointed vice-chancellor,...
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Hypocrisy writ large

16 May 2013 Imagine for a moment a fully democratic country with an independent judiciary, a country with a secular government, where there is freedom of...
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