Opinion
In the church of Obama
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- 24 November 2008
It was edifying to be inside a church that Obama attended for 20 years and to hear first-hand the church’s commitment to social justice and personal responsibility. Let’s pray Obama places those two principles at the centre of his policy towards Africa, writes Jacob Dlamini.
Yes, we can
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- 17 November 2008
The fall of the Berlin Wall is undoubtedly a watershed event in world history but on balance, I would argue that the election of a black man to run the world’s most powerful country has the edge as a world-changing event, writes Kevin Davie.
South Africa’s inspirations
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- 10 November 2008
Obama described how Mahatma Gandhi began his quest for India’s independence in South Africa, which inspired Martin Luther King, whose civil rights movement, in turn, helped move South Africans to act against apartheid, writes Justice Malala.
Closing South Africa’s democratic deficit
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- 03 November 2008
For neutral observers of South Africa’s relatively new and unfolding democracy, the likely creation of a new party is excellent news, creating the prospect of a more strongly contested election and a potential break-up of the ice-flows that have characterised the country’s political scene, writes Tim Cohen.
With love, your number one fan
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- 21 October 2008
Having adoring fans can really boost one's ego. But when that 'fan' steps over the comfortable line between fiction and reality, it becomes rather uncomfortable, as one South African actress found out, writes Khanyi Magubane.
Freedom means nothing left to lose
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- 13 October 2008
In the South Africa leading business journalists acknowledge the fact that our market is not so free has acted as handbrake on the panic sweeping other financial markets across the world, writes Kevin Davie.
MediaClubSouthAfrica.com weekly columnists
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- 21 April 2008
Meet the top South African writers who produce the MediaClubSouthAfrica.com weekly columns.
