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  • Opinion: How optimists make us unwilling to face truth

    Posted on June 29, 2012

    We should reject metaphors such as "the glass is half full" when we could have it full to the brim. We must watch vigilantly that its contents do not diminish, writes UP Political sciences lecturer and Business Day columnist, Dr Mzukisi Qobo.

  • Opinion: On the rule of law

    Posted on June 28, 2012

    The rule of law ought to be at the heart of the social contract between a state and the individuals under its jurisdiction to ensure that justice permeates society at every level, writes UP Political Sciences Extraordinary Professor, Henning Melber.

  • UP Postdoc Fellow receives peace award

    Posted on June 28, 2012

    In June Dr Cori Wielenga, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Sciences, was a co-recipient of the Global Peace Award from the International Public Policy Institute.

  • Opinion: Good ANC leaders must rebel or leave the party

    Posted on June 22, 2012

    Kgalema Motlanthe, Trevor Manuel and Tokyo Sexwale are leaders who have the power to do something meaningful, but are not using it, writes UP Political Sciences lecturer and Business Day columnist Dr Mzukisi Qobo.

  • Opinion: Why are the middle classes so politically passive?

    Posted on June 15, 2012

    Since we have happily ceded power to politicians, we have learned to become powerless by choice, writes UP Politial Sciences lecturer and Business Day columnist Dr Mzukisi Qobo.

  • UP-Australia diplomat training initiative in the news

    Posted on June 11, 2012

    On 6 June 2012 the Pretoria News reported on a diplomat training course, funded by the Australian government and presented in partnership with the University of Pretoria, that will train 290 African participants from 40 countries.

  • Opinion: ANC

    Posted on June 08, 2012

    The reality is that the ANC established its credibility on the back of power borrowed from the people, writes UP Political Sciences lecturer and Business Day columnist, Dr Mzukisi Qobo.

  • Opinion: Time to explore political life beyond the ANC

    Posted on June 01, 2012

    It is necessary that the ANC suffers a huge electoral defeat and is confined permanently to the political margins, writes UP Political Sciences Lecturer and Business Day Columnist, Dr Mzukisi Qobo.

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