Focus 20 - 4th Quarter 2000

A campus farce: The University of the North: a campus farce, now in its fifth hilarious year. South Africa's reality gap: A serious reality gap seems to exist between the government and many of the problems it has to face.
A campus farce

The University of the North: a campus farce, now in its fifth hilarious year.

Every vote counts

The right to vote is the foundation stone of the rights guaranteed in the Constitution, for it preserves all other liberties.

Interview: Wilfred Mhanda, former freedom fighter

As a senior commander in Zimbabwe's armed movement, Mhanda helped Robert Mugabe come to power, a move he soon regretted. Trained by the Chinese, he was jailed in Mozambique, then blocked from jobs in his own country.

Playing the Nazi card

ANC propagandists who compare the apartheid state to the Third Reich are abusing history to score political points.

Thabo Mbeki's strategy

The president's search for scapegoats is part of a shrewd strategy for political survival, writes Lawrence Schlemmer.

Will the people topple Mugabe?

RW Johnson believes that the opposition in Zimbabwe will resort to mass action if international pressure does not work.