It was Gauntlett, apparently, who determined that, in order to save Zuma legally, he would have to wound him politically Long ago when British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was under political siege, he shrugged off cascading crises around him with the phrase, “A week is a long time in politics.‘‘ Decades later, when Conservative cabinet [...]
Iowa is very different from the rest of the US. With an ever-shrinking white majority in the country as a whole, this state is over 91% pale On Tuesday when you found all your DStv news channels clogged with news from Iowa, blame it on a largely unknown former governor of the US state of [...]
Thabo Mbeki’s detractors await his defence of real areas of controversy around his rule — literally the A to Z, from AIDS to Zimbabwe, writes Tony Leon BACK at the dawn of the last century, readers of The Strand Magazine in London lined up in droves to buy the next instalment of the latest Sherlock [...]
“The obligatory optimism of a socialist society”. That was the working description penned, years back, by Albanian prize winning author Ismail Kadare on life and literature under the tyrant’s heel of the ultra-authoritarian Enver Hoxha. Just last week, here at home and at the start of our twenty first year of constitutional democracy, we received [...]
