2012-05-13 10:00
Trade unionists pretend to speak for the jobless, but when a powerful federation like Cosatu sets its face against a youth wage subsidy to allow youngsters into the job market, you have to question its good faith.
2012-05-13 10:00
Former South African president FW de Klerk should not forget that he is a Nobel peace prize laureate.
2012-05-06 10:00
What exactly needs to happen for President Jacob Zuma to realise that his indifference to the Richard Mdluli matter will not make it go away?
2012-04-29 10:00
The Press Freedom Commission recommendations, coming as they do in the week that we celebrate freedom of all South Africans, come with the promise not unlike of that day 18 years ago.
2012-04-22 10:00
Eighteen years already since freedom came. Can you believe it?
2012-04-08 10:00
It was ironic that it was at a gathering to dispel the notion floated by Julius Malema that the ANC leadership had become dictatorial that the party’s general secretary all but confirmed that the youth league leader may have a point.
2012-04-01 10:00
They say losers are winners who simply stopped trying.
2012-03-25 10:00
It was most unfortunate that the people of Sharpeville this week decided to riot in the streets of the township to register their disapproval of Human Rights Day, commonly known as Sharpeville Day, being held in Soweto and not in their township as was always the case in the past.
2012-03-18 10:00
A man who grew up in South Africa, Greg Smith, set the global financial story this week.
2012-03-11 10:00
This week’s march by Cosatu marked a step-change for the federation and for the nature of protest.
2012-03-04 10:00
T omorrow police chief General Bheki Cele will report for his commission of inquiry into a R500 million police building lease.