http://www.citypress.co.za/ Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:21:10 +0200 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:00:01 +0200 ARE South Africans actually turning their backs on the 1994 settlement? Are we beginning to have second thoughts about the content and meaning of the one thing that still binds us together – the Constitution? http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Hard-won-Constitution-faces-serious-threats-20100327 Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:00:01 +0200 PERHAPS, after all, there is a silver lining to the dark cloud that is our depressing national political scene: perhaps it will undermine the established culture that The Leaders should be respected and followed without question. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Feel-free-to-stomp-on-the-clay-feet-of-the-leadership-20100227 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:00:01 +0200 There is more and more evidence that President Jacob Zuma actually sees himself as a king or paramount chief rather than the president of a modern democracy. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/when-the-president-is-king-20100213 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:00:03 +0200 WHO said this, and about whom: “I don’t see why I should respond to what he is saying; he is not the ANC”? Was it Lindiwe Sisulu talking about Tokyo Sexwale, Sexwale about Gwede Mantashe, or Buti Manemela about Floyd Shivambu? http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Gatvol-brigade-gets-gatvol-20100131 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:00:04 +0200 Bullying has increased since the Polokwane putsch . . . They don’t debate or lobby; they don’t engage or argue; they shout and scream and insult and threaten. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/We-must-stand-up-to-the-bullies-20100117 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:00:02 +0200 ARE we as a nation ready to start the real debate, which we should have had 15 years ago, on race, class, history, memory, revenge, justice and reconciliation? http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Now-that-were-at-our-lowest-point-lets-debate-20091212 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:00:04 +0200 THE ANC is more and more resembling a wounded, desperate beast licking its wounds and occasionally feeding on its own flesh. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/ANC-is-collapsing-like-a-house-of-cards-20091128 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:00:02 +0200 The media-lynching of Professor Jansen was revolting. He is a leader who knew the easiest path for him would have been to do nothing writes MAX DU PREEZ. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Visionary-and-courageous-20091103 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:05:32 +0200 WHAT has gone so terribly wrong in our country? The scenes in ­Diepsloot and Sakhile townships over the past week were ­virtual carbon copies of scenes we saw on television in the late 1980s: over-aggressive police, burning barricades, destruction of state property and stone-throwing. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Wake-up-and-smell-the-teargas-20091017 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:36:02 +0200 Fearful and insecure men told the story that Mantatisi breastfed her troops herself and commanded millions of bees which she sent ahead of her troops to soften their targets. http://www.citypress.co.za/Columnists/MaxduPreez/Mantatisi-The-woman-history-continues-to-ignore-20090921 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:05:33 +0200