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Keywords: South Africa

  • AUSTRALIA

    How lax commentary is failing cricket

    • Tony Smith
    • 27 January 2009
    20 Comments

    Today's commentators seem determined to speak about anything but the cricket — their lunches, last night's frivolities, films, politics and, most of all, themselves. Much more than the Australian players, Test cricket commentators are in crisis.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Zimbabwe's disappeared

    • Oskar Wermter
    • 17 December 2008
    6 Comments

    Jestina Mukoko was a television presenter, but left to become director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, which has documented many atrocities and crimes of Mugabe's regime. Last week she was abducted by a group of armed agents.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pat Dodson chooses brand Mandela

    • Michael Mullins
    • 07 April 2008
    1 Comment

    Zimbabwe's struggle for freedom took a wrong turn when Robert Mugabe opted for a strategy of vindictiveness. Recently Australia's 'father of Reconciliation' Pat Dodson identified the secret of Nelson Mandela's success in building the nation of South Africa from the ruins of the apartheid regime: Love your enemy.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Sophie Rudolph

    • Sophie Rudolph
    • 12 December 2007

    In 2006-2007 Sophie Rudolph spent 20 months working, volunteering and traveling in Europe, Africa and South East Asia. In 2008 she will be teaching at Collingwood College in Melbourne.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    South Africa buys Mugabe's 'them and us' ruse

    • Peter Roebuck
    • 22 August 2007
    8 Comments

    South Africa is determined to resist calls to boycott its cricket tour of Zimbabwe. Mugabe's turning the slaughter and starvation over which he has so blithely presided into a " them and us" confrontation has paid dividends.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    South Africa no longer deserves to host 2010 World Cup

    • Peter Roebuck
    • 16 April 2007
    14 Comments

    By supporting and sustaining the holocaust unfolding in Zimbabwe, the South African Government has aligned itself with the ranks of evil. FIFA has no choice but to find a new location for football World Cup.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    From pieces to peace

    • Matthew Albert
    • 22 May 2006

    Democracy in South Africa

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Being the devil’s advocate

    • Richard Treloar
    • 14 May 2006

    Former South African Supreme Court Judge, Justice Laurie Ackermann spoke recently about how he struggled with his judicial role under apartheid.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Catherine Marshall

    • Catherine Marshall
    1 Comment

    Catherine Marshall is a Sydney-based journalist and travel writer. She started her career as a broadcast journalist in her native South Africa and has written for magazines, newspapers and online publications in Australia, South Africa, the United States and Asia. She micro-blogs at www.zizzyballord.com and tweets as @zizzyballordand. Her writing can be seen at www.catherineamarshall.blogspot.com.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Justin Glyn

    • Justin Glyn

    Justin Glyn is a Jesuit priest who grew up in South Africa and migrated to New Zealand in 1998. He has practised law in both countries and has a doctorate in international and administrative law from the University of Auckland. After his ordination he will travel to Canada to study a Licence in Canon Law at St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. He has published articles on theology and an adapted version of his Ph.D thesis was published by Presidian in 2009 under the title Fundamental Rights in Administrative Decision-Making: Peremptory Norms as Objective Standards in Immigration and Refugee Cases.

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