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Guptagate points to lack of accountability

Guptagate is but the latest scandal for a government that seems skilled in generating media fodder, writes Stefan Gilbert.

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Lean budget will leave SA defenceless

The defence budget needs a major rethink, writes Helmoed Römer Heitman.

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This burgher is king, the masses paupers

The "War on Poverty" is over. Because in a moment of presidential madness, it became a bad joke. Murray Willams explains why.

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Walter Sisulu died on May 5, 2003, aged 91.

Let’s not forget Walter Sisulu
May 15 2013 at 10:20

If we think Nelson Mandela is great, how much greater is the man who made him? Khaya Dlanga ponders this.

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File image - Government still makes it difficult for businesses to succeed, the writers say.

Verwoerd-type policies suffocate township firms
May 14 2013 at 16:13

Government still makes it difficult for businesses to succeed, write Gus Ntlokwana, Patric Poggenpoel and David Sawula.

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President Jacob Zuma and the DA leader Helen Zille sharing a joke. File picture: Sizwe Ndingane

Tales of heroes and villains for votes
May 14 2013 at 16:15

White liberalism in SA has always been well-positioned to write and rewrite history, says Mandisi Majavu.

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Voters want to know what DA’s doing now
May 14 2013 at 12:27

What happened 40 years ago is interesting. But it's the present and future that is more interesting, writes Douglas Gibson.

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A file photo from 2000 shows a group of war veterans and Zanu-PF supporters moving through a crop of winter wheat to occupy a farm north of Harare.

What we CAN learn from Zim
May 14 2013 at 09:51

Max du Preez’s recent column on possible lessons SA could learn from Zim’s land redistribution provoked an awful lot of emotion.

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Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys has launched a political movement to unite those seeking an alternative democracy in the country. Picture: Dumisani Sibeko

SA’s DNA is needed
May 13 2013 at 19:47

We do not need any more political parties, but broad-based involvement, writes Pieter Dirk Uys.

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Drill rig operator Bushy Letsosa works underground at the Modikwa mine, an operation of Anglo American Platinum. The company plans to lay off 6 000 workers and shut some shafts. Photo: Supplied.

Unions suspect restructuring collusion
May 13 2013 at 05:56

Did the management of Amplats and the government do a deal behind closed doors? Terry Bell wants to know.

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SA’s middle class in black and white
May 13 2013 at 13:12

Are we heading towards a “raceless” middle class? Maybe heading – but we are far from there, writes Maggie Wittstock.

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Steak, homosexuals and terrorists
May 13 2013 at 07:37

Our young leaders need lessons in critical thinking and moral reasoning, writes Eusebius McKaiser.

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Civil servants need to be treated with civility
May 12 2013 at 13:31

The ANC is not interested in resolving the problem that is primarily responsible for the destabilisation of our civil service.

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