While we were tweeting…

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The month of August came and went explosively in South Africa, with 34 striking miners killed in a hail of police bullets. Ten more have died in the protracted strike (2 police, 2 security guards, and an additional 6 mineworkers). While the Africa is a Country collective was officially on vacation, we tweeted extensively about the […]

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Made in China

The football will be great, we’ll talk tactics and football history all month long, make silly predictions on who’ll win the cup, and the fans will have a good time (though most won’t be able to afford the tickets), but many South Africans know that the benefits from the World Cup to the average South […]

The Dangers of Populism

Ray Hartley, The Times (South Africa) editor, interviews Jeremy Cronin, top intellectual and currently Minister of Transport in South Africa. Via The Wild Frontier (Hartley’s blog)

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