The meaning of February 11, 1990
A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela--after 27 years--was released from prison.
A veteran anti-apartheid figure writes about the day Nelson Mandela--after 27 years--was released from prison.
Some journalism and "analysis" about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.
Blind clichés, projections and stereotypes masquerading as analysis in Foreign Policy by Karen Leigh, Time Magazine’s correspondent for West Africa.
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.
If you’re tired of the nonsense published in The New York Times or on the BBC
Tracing the origins and development of newspaper cartooning in South Africa, and its political place.
We shouldn't be surprised when absent of meaningful political change, the structural violence of South African life finds vivid and widespread expression.
Sean Jacobs Note from a friend who closely watches the South African political scene: Below [the
The question as to whether a coloured can become leader of South Africa's ruling party and even, more remotely, president of the country.
How do we make sense of the current direction of the ANC, described yesterday by Archbishop
Social progressives in South Africa would like to believe otherwise, but the country is mostly socially rightwing and conservative.
South African feminist academic, Pumla Gqola, takes on all the whataboutisms thrown up by Jacob Zuma's defenders.
Platon, the New Yorker staff photographer got many of the world's leaders to sit for portraits. A number of African leaders obliged.
Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.
Anyone could have told mainstream Western media that Jacob Zuma would follow conventional rightwing economic policies. Why are they acting surprised?