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COULD the SA Communist Party help the coalition to stay in office?

INTERNATIONAL law is back – at least in theory. Does that matter?

APARTHEID has mercifully left this country’s laws. But it lives on in its public debate.

PEOPLE are not rejecting democracy. They are unhappy with the pale shadow of the real thing currently on offer.

WHEN a government which needs to show that it can improve people’s lives wants to make life harder for the poor, it must be guided by a very deep prejudice.

APARTHEID may be dead, but this country’s elites still believe that some of us are better than others. This includes those who fought minority rule.

AROUND the world, the more the economy inflicts pain on people, the more democracy is in trouble.

ARE the days when ANC palace politics mattered gone? Not at all.

SOME damage can be seen very clearly and right away. But harm can also take years to show itself. The torment of Palestine and the West’s role in it have caused both types of damage.

DEMOCRACY means that the majority decides. But it cannot do whatever it pleases.