http://www.citypress.co.za/ Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:20:11 +0200 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:15:01 +0200 It was six years ago this week that a mob of men attacked Zoliswa Nkonyana as she was walking home from a Khayelitsha tavern. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Six-years-40-court-dates-20120204 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:15:01 +0200 The stalemate of the African Union’s contest for the continental body’s chair has been roundly and wrongly couched as proof of African disunity. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Addis-stalemate-a-victory-for-democracy-20120204 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:01:10 +0200 ‘We are the face of government and therefore we need insurance from the people who protest and burn our houses.” This, in a nutshell, is a demand to government from local councillors organised into the SA Local Government Association. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Salga-needs-to-fix-the-root-problems-20120128 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:18 +0200 As Bhisho was burning this week, politicians were playing the fiddle, hoping that the Eastern Cape education ­crisis would disappear so they could resume doing more important things. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Education-before-Mangaung-politics-20120128 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:13 +0200 The African Union (AU) has had a bad 2011. Apart from the usual problems – lack of money, inertia about the dodgy dictators in its midst and infighting that cripple the work of the organisation – it was also roundly ignored last year by the United Nations on the Libyan conflict. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Is-Africa-ready-for-Ms-Fix-it-20120121 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:00:07 +0200 Once again ordinary people find themselves to be collateral damage in the ANC’s internal strife. Service delivery has become the weapon of choice in the war that followed when Cabinet decided to place five Limpopo ­departments under national government control. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Delivery-is-never-a-political-weapon-20120121 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:00:12 +0200 The tragedy that befell Gloria Sekwena’s family after she died in a stampede at the University of Johannesburg’s Bunting Road campus this week is as much an indictment of the education system as it is of some personal attitudes we continue to harbour as a nation. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Culture-of-last-minute-acts-add-to-body-count-20120114 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:00:18 +0200 We join the millions who congratulate the ANC on reaching 100 years. It has largely been a glorious centenary. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Lest-the-ANC-forget-its-way-20120110 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:04:55 +0200 What is it about the miniskirt? And the taxi rank? http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Dont-touch-my-2cm-20120110 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:19:30 +0200 One of the most notable pictures of 2011 was of the national football team celebrating a goalless draw at home to Sierra Leone, a team ranked 20 places behind ours at the time. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Lets-break-the-spell-in-2012-20111223 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:34:20 +0200 One would have expected President Jacob Zuma and Justice Minister Jeff Radebe to be more careful with ­appointments after they got smacked by the Supreme Court of Appeal for hiring chief prosecutor Menzi Simelane. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Heath-more-egg-for-Radebe-Zuma-20111217 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:00:19 +0200 The execution in China and the arrest in Thailand of South African drug mules shine the spotlight on the areas of policymaking that leave much to be desired – foreign policy and drug dealing. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/SAs-quiet-diplomacy-is-now-deafening-20111217 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:00:21 +0200 The central government takeover of ­departments in three provincial ­administrations is a long overdue ­signal to the free-spending ways of this second tier of government that the party must end. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Do-we-really-need-these-sinkholes-20111210 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:00:32 +0200 In March 2008, the BBC interviewed ­advocate Willem Heath, then a legal adviser to ANC president Jacob Zuma, about the ­corruption case against Zuma. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Zuma-knew-who-he-hired-in-Heath-20111210 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:00:40 +0200 Sun City, or the Johannesburg Prison, is not a place a 61-year-old veteran of the struggle for freedom and democracy in South Africa should call home. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Lessons-as-the-sun-sets-on-Selebi-20111203 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:53:58 +0200 The golden thread that runs through the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment in the case brought by the DA against the appointment of Menzi Simelane as the National Director of Public Prosecutions is this: we have a president who is indifferent to the rigours required for the office he holds. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Zumas-cavalier-attitude-an-insult-20111203 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:54:20 +0200 Cabinet’s announcement this week on the “transformation of the judicial system and the role of the judiciary in a developmental state” is cause for concern. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Cabinets-judicial-plan-gives-us-the-shivers-20111126 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:00:36 +0200 So here we are again, on the eve of another international climate conference. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/COP17-neednt-be-a-cop-out-20111126 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:00:41 +0200 Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced the scrapping of quotas in South African sporting codes. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Kick-prejudice-out-not-talent-20111119 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:00:19 +0200 News of Julius Malema’s suspension from the ANC will be celebrated and mourned with equal measure by his many friends and foes. http://www.citypress.co.za/Opinions/Editorials/Wild-West-politics-serve-no-purpose-20111112 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:00:14 +0200