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Tag: Jacob Zuma
Admit it, you didn’t expect the Economic Freedom Fighters to do so well
At first sight, the results for national and provincial elections in South Africa may suggest that little has changed. T…
20 Years of Freedom: Zackie Achmat on South Africa’s 5th democratic elections
Throughout the 2000s, Zackie Achmat led what was probably the most recognizable multi-class, mass social movement in Sou…
20 Years of Freedom: The post-1994 power brokers and black liberation
On May 7th South Africans go to the polls to vote for national and provincial representatives (the majority party gets t…
The Day Jacob Zuma Lost Control of the Party?
One way of looking at Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s words at the end of the farcical Nelson Mandela’s memorial serv…
South Africa’s a Continent
South African president Jacob Zuma’s visit to Malawi in August appears to have renewed his appreciation for the qu…
The ‘premature’ launch of South Africa’s second 24-hour news channel
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)–which commands the largest TV audience inside that country–…
Julius Malema’s next move
As South Africa’s 2014 general elections approach and the ruling ANC continues to weaken under Jacob Zuma’s …
10 Contested Images of 2012
Remember that little video campaign called #Kony2012? Yeah, we wish we could forget too. Few videos have reached the mag…
Why would the BBC care what FW de Klerk thinks?
Reporting on President Jacob Zuma’s landslide re-election as leader of South Africa’s governing African National C…