The president should attend to faults at home before promoting his Millennium Plan for Africa.
Focus 21 - First Quarter 2001
South Africa's support for Mugabe: Thabo Mbeki has propped up Zimbabwe's dictator at great cost to the region and his own reputation, says R.W. Johnson. Blocked by tactics of terror: How should a democratic party respond to a government that uses any illegality to block the opposition?
Thabo Mbeki has propped up Zimbabwe's dictator at great cost to the region and his own reputation, says R.W. Johnson.
How should a democratic party respond to a government that uses any illegality to block the opposition?
The government has deployed a rapid response force of loyal troops to halt an embarrassing probe into the arms deal.
Either we stand up for the rights of Parliament against the executive or we are seen to give in and fail.
The impartiality and consistency of amnesty decisions is put under the spotlight by the case of Chris Hani's killers.
There is a lot more to the fiasco of the third cellphone license than simple mismanagement.