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M&G on rough seas!

It’s enough to have one sweating bullets: nearly half of the Mail and Guardian’s news staff face retrenchment. With its legendary investigative journalism record as well as faithfully living up to the moniker, ‘Africa’ s best read,’ the M&G seems to be slowly going under. On what is a raging, tumultuous media landscape, it tithers … M&G on rough seas! Read More »
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Zwelinzima Vavi: snippets from a raconteur

Zwelinzima Vavi must surely be the one cadre who’s parried more long knives than our last three presidents combined. This even though he is foremost a unionist, a disciple of the MDR movement by affiliation, and his conduct has never quite led one to believe he was ever in it for the hotseat. Or the … Zwelinzima Vavi: snippets from a raconteur Read More »
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The TRC, new Inquests and the quest for justice

‘Pain gives a quality to what is happening that nothing else seems able to give’ counsels the late Desmond Tutu to Antjie Krog in her book Country of my Skull. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has just been handed new information on, amongst others, The Cradock Four and Pebco 3, and the Bishop, back from … The TRC, new Inquests and the quest for justice Read More »
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Potus and Cyril: The Buffalo at least spoke up

If President Donald Trump’s ‘orchestrated show for the cameras’ was meant to poke President Cyril Ramaphosa in the eye, the SA leader didn’t kick up his chair. Not so much a shit-eating grin at what has been broadly called an ‘ambush’ by the media. And if there ever was a moment that a Buffalo might … Potus and Cyril: The Buffalo at least spoke up Read More »
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The Buffalo meets Potus but the old SA scuffle never die.

The story goes that when Trevor Manual first rose to a Minister in Nelson Mandela’s cabinet, he could barely work a PC. He must’ve been one of the privileged ones as some of his colleagues – fresh from whatever dank the old regime had abandoned them to – might have never seen, let alone sat … The Buffalo meets Potus but the old SA scuffle never die. Read More »
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Soft Power: Where US and SA power lies.

On the off-chance of catching a newsclip of a measured and presidential Donald Trump, it is still nigh impossible to divorce the image of a property mogul celebrity from the besuited statesman sat at a pristine desk in the Oval Office nonchalantly signing one executive order after another with a smug grin that almost looks like … Soft Power: Where US and SA power lies. Read More »