Ferial Haffajee looks at the latest book to offer an explanation for the mess we’re in
Black business is going into this election more politically diverse than it has been since the end of apartheid, writes Ferial Haffajee.
Ferial Haffajee asks whether the government’s stance on cultural freedom ignores equal rights for women.
What, I wonder, has become of the audacity of our hope? Could it possibly be true that nations get the leaders they deserve?
Ferial Haffajee, together with <i>M&G</i> reporters, delivers this year’s report card on government ministers’ perfomance.
Is it fair to say the SABC has fallen apart because the centre cannot hold, to quote WB Yeats?
Ferial Haffajee on why she agreed to model for Clover.
Remember the days when, as inaugural transport minister, Mac Maharaj insisted that he would continue to drive his beat-up old Jetta? It struck a chord, for it spoke of a…
The thought of South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Blade Nzimande as minister of finance sends shivers down my spine. Not because I fear a Red Fiscus (provided it stays…
In 23 days, the Jacob Zuma rape trial has shaken our world. Regardless of the outcome, we are in an altered state. The political damage is incalculable, with the ruling African…
"The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is a muckraking newspaper. Ours is not a sober newspaper like the <i>Financial Times</i> (though I wish we could occasionally imitate its sobriety) or…
The SABC’s newsreader purred like a pussycat when she announced last year that the government was giving itself a Christmas present: nine military transport Airbuses at a cost of…
Schabir Shaik will tell the Durban High Court next week that there was nothing improper in his relationship with Deputy President Jacob Zuma, but that they were bound together by…
A ground-breaking study by the United Nations Development Programme has sought to predict what life in Africa could be like by 2025. Contributions to the study came from more…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s five-nation tour, which began in the island nations of Sao Tome and Principe, will end in South Africa this week. Lula will stay…
South Africa has world-class financial architecture but faces the conundrum that the majority of the poor do not have access to these globally competitive financial services.…
Allister Sparks, a grandfather of South African journalism, has fired one of the first volleys in the 10-year assessment with <i>Beyond the Miracle</i>, the third in his series…
Less than one in three South Africans who need social grants get it, yet this week’s Cabinet <i>lekgotla</i> officially jettisoned a basic income grant (BIG) in favour of an…
Deputy President Jacob Zuma this week went for the jugular as he staged a counter-attack against the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions and its chief Bulelani Ngcuka.
Mr Delivery. That’s how some members of the presidency characterised the ascendancy of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999. Since then Mbeki has run a managerialist presidency where…
