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THE ANC is edging closer to recognising what it needs to do to win back the trust of its voters. But it still seems set on tackling symptoms, not causes.

IT is very common in this country’s public debate to dismiss meetings convened by the government as ‘talk shops.’ Next year, this cliché will, for once, tell the truth.

NOW we really do know that, if democracy needs to get along without the West, it will.

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.