
Nicholas Kristof wants it both ways
The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.
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The New York Times columnist traveled to Zimbabwe and wrote two totally different stories for his paper that read like night and day.

One of the weirder displays of Pan-Africanism descended on Johannesburg’s Soccer City on the evening of July 2, 2010.

What does it mean for a dead man to live through us, as we chant his name and claim him?

The charge that Mohandas Gandhi was a racist is doing the rounds again. His stay in colonial South Africa fuels those claims.

Anyone who lives in fear of getting sick exists in a state of unfreedom.

Middle class South African inertia and the police murder of activist Andries Tatane during a protest in town in the Free State province.

We have no illusions about Sandler having a responsibility to create smart cinema.

Land reform should focus on justice and social transformation, not on creating a new class of black commercial farm owners.

Johnny Issel, who has died at age 68, was a prominent activist for leftist social movements in 1980s South Africa.

And why is the London Review of Books giving Johnson, a rightwing South African liberal, a regular platform to espouse his rantings?

Southern African whites serve Western interests in Africa, acting as conduits and reinforcing racist propaganda that sustains a colonial worldview about Africans.

The dynamics of refuge-seeking in southern Mozambique between 1895 and the 1980s.

Van Heerden was a fixture in Cape Town's jazz and alternative music scenes. His music is now available for purchase online.

Learning that Radio Freedom, the exiled ANC's radio service, broadcast in Afrikaans, further undermines the idea of the language as belonging to the oppressor.

Highlighting spectacular incidents of racial violence is that they overshadow the daily, unrecorded anti-black racist acts.

The song "Weeping" by Bright Blue is one of five South African tunes (and some of the albums they're on) that I have on repeat right now.

We are in a new phase, one that is characterised by a rejection of compromise as a tactic for managing democratic intercourse.

The idea that leadership is the panacea to South Africa's varied troubles, is asserted as an almost axiomatic truth amongst South Africa's monotonous punditry.