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MATHATHA TSEDU | Mbeki should remember his words about ‘honour’ (opens the original)
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On March 26 1999, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki, poised to take over as president in less than 90 days, rose to speak in parliament as the legislators bade farewell to President Rolihlahla Mandela. Starting off in poetic isiXhosa, Mbeki sustained the theme with an interplay of English words, as only he, the supreme political intellectual, can do. The father of the nation, Tata, was taking leave of national duty. It was a speech in which Mbeki heaped praises on Madiba for not selling out on h
MATHATHA TSEDU | Madlanga commission was pain piled upon pain (opens the original)
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Watching the Madlanga commission this week was doubly painful. On a human level, seeing Andrea Johnson, head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac), make a fool of herself and retracting acres of her statements and decisions was difficult to bear. Here was a lawyer, an advocate with 30-plus years of experience in prosecutions, biting her tongue as she vainly tried to explain the stitch-up that she, her team and friends had obviously concocted against the most senior members o
MATHATHA TSEDU | Why I supported France against Morocco (opens the original)
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Thursday evening could have been an agonising night watching the World Cup match between France and Morocco. While technically speaking this was Europe vs Afrika, in essence it wasn’t. With 21 out of 26 of the French squad being of Afrikan descent, France was really a continental Afrikan team. Morocco is geographically in Afrika, but is essentially a non-Afrikan country. They do not consider themselves Afrikan and even tried, in 1987, to join the European Union where their hearts are. Europe tur
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