Single-party dominance is not new to post-apartheid South Africa, as manifest in the proceedings of a conference.
Focus 32 - 4th Quarter 2003
Has upcoming poll yielded full roll-out? Virginia van der Vliet traces the history of ANC denial and procrastination on HIV/Aids. A critical appraisal of the Mbeki presidency: Thabo Mbeki has shown great skill in co-opting the emerging black elite and silencing critical voices.
Virginia van der Vliet traces the history of ANC denial and procrastination on HIV/Aids.
David Welsh argues that Mbeki's handling of the Zuma-Ngcuka dispute has not improved his image as a strong leader.
While the ANC has constituted itself as a mass party, the DA has shown that it has pockets of township support.
Alf Stadler reckons that the ANC has forgone a chance to educate the public by refusing to debate the death penalty.
Lawrence Schlemmer thinks that delivery problems may be more complex than orthodox opinion realises.
Thabo Mbeki has shown great skill in co-opting the emerging black elite and silencing critical voices.
Democracy may be a necessary condition for human rights... but it is not necessarily a sufficient condition.
The ANC's celebration of Coetzee's Nobel Prize while castigating him as a racist is crass expediency. By Patrick Laurence.
Past predictions of Madikizela-Mandela's political demise have failed to materialise.