by Daniel Krähmer | Aug 23, 2010
By Patrick BondAugust 22, 2010 – The two major civil service unions on strike against the South African government have vowed to intensify pressure in coming days, in a struggle pitting more than a million members of the middle and lower ranks of society against...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 16, 2010
By Graeme AddisonLumko Mtimde, CEO of the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), must be feeling horribly isolated now that virtually all media professional bodies and a broad consensus of civil society organisations have condemned the proposed media tribunal...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 16, 2010
By Steven Friedman8 September 2010Of course the press must be free. But why does it not use its freedom to give us the information we need? Government attacks on the press have ensured that it is hard to question journalists’ priorities for fear of being seen to...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 21, 2010
By Sibongakonke Shoba and Sam Mkokeli20 September 2010It was at the same gathering five years ago that ANC delegates saved Mr Zuma’s political career when they rejected his resignation as the party’s number two.The long-awaited African National Congress (ANC) national...
by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 21, 2010
By Aubrey Matshiqi20 September 2010I am at Durban’s North Beach pier, a few minutes away from where the national general council of the African National Congress (ANC) will take place from today. The waves, as they always seem to do at this time of the morning, are...