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The Cape Colony

The campaign to separate South Africa's Western Cape from the rest of the country is not only a symptom of white privilege, but also of the myth that the province is better run.

Weekend in Stellenbosch

The writer went for a visit and found Stellenbosch, a Western Cape town that is home to one of South Africa's universities, strange, interesting and also very sad.

The Dutch Disease

The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.