Recently South Africa has seen the ugly face of gender-based violence. The horrific rape and murder of 17-year-old Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp in February shocked the country and received worldwide publicity. Booysen was brutally raped and left for dead by

The unresolved national question By Karl Cloete When the former ANC secretary general, Kgalema Mothlanthe, presented the organisational report to the 2007 ANC national conference in Polokwane, he raised this important point in relation to the need to build a

15 January 2010 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is utterly disgusted and incensed by the Zapiro cartoon in today’s Mail & Guardian. The cartoon by Zapiro depicts the President of the Republic and of the ANC