• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Tom Devriendt

• Prexy Nesbitt

A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela — after 27 years — was released from prison.

• Melissa Levin

Some journalism and "analysis" about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.

• Jonathan Faull

Blind clichés, projections and stereotypes masquerading as analysis in Foreign Policy by Karen Leigh, Time Magazine’s correspondent for West Africa.

• Jonathan Faull

South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema's brand of populist politics.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Brett Davidson

Tracing the origins and development of newspaper cartooning in South Africa, and its political place.

• An Anonymous Reader

We shouldn't be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The question as to whether a coloured can become leader of South Africa's ruling party and even, more remotely, president of the country.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

South African feminist academic, Pumla Gqola, takes on all the whataboutisms thrown up by Jacob Zuma's defenders.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Platon, the New Yorker staff photographer got many of the world's leaders to sit for portraits. A number of African leaders obliged.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Anyone could have told mainstream Western media that Jacob Zuma would follow conventional rightwing economic policies. Why are they acting surprised?