Mail & Guardian
M&G in the danger zone
By Phakamisa Mayaba It’s enough to have one sweating bullets: nearly half of the Mail & Guardian’s...
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Zwelinzima Vavi: nuggets from a political raconteur
By Phakamisa Mayaba Zwelinzima Vavi must surely be the one cadre who’s parried more long knives than...
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Cradock Four: some justice at last?
By Phakamisa Mayaba ‘Pain gives a quality to what is happening that nothing else seems able to give,’...
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Potus and Cyril: at least The Buffalo spoke up
By Phakamisa Mayaba If Donald Trump’s ‘orchestrated show for the cameras’ was meant to poke Cyril Ramaphosa...
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POTUS and the Buffalo: the old SA shuffle never dies
By Phakamisa Mayaba The story goes that when Trevor Manuel first got into Nelson Mandela’s cabinet,...
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'Ry of bly?': In search of our 'soft power'
By Phakamisa Mayaba On the off-chance of catching a news clip of a measured and presidential Donald Trump,...
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The issue isn’t Afrikaans, it’s paranoia
By Phakamisa Mayaba No, it’s not because Charlize Theron, to wholesale lampooning, claimed that only...
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The teachers who want out within a decade
By Phakamisa Mayaba Just shy of an astounding half of South Africa’s teachers want to leave the profession...
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Third term for Saul in Northern Cape ANC
By PHAKAMISA MAYABA In what could be regarded as a lacklustre outcome, Dr Zamani Saul has been elected...
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Ernst gets his shine as new media hit and miss
By PHAKAMISA MAYABA Not too long ago, the local media would have us believe that Afriforum’s lobbying...