On his regular Book Safari, David L Smith looks at <em>The Democratic King</em>, a novel by a policeman from Burkina Faso about his ideal Africa.
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/ 12 February 2010
The road towards obtaining a driver’s licence in Gauteng is pitted with potholes.
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/ 12 February 2010
The ANC task team in the Western Cape has dissolved 10% of its 348 party branches in the province in a move described as "a disaster" for the party.
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/ 12 February 2010
Macaulay Vogel, presumably of Scottish and Dutch descent, is the dull-as-ditchwater protagonist of this sadly tedious novel.
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/ 12 February 2010
In <em>Kings of the Water</em>, the author weighs the costs of belonging against the perils of expatriation with subtlety and tenderness.
The ANC has given President Jacob Zuma a last chance to prove he can lead the party without scandal.
Marine interests are up in arms after vital areas were left out of its transfer to the agriculture department.
Teazers’ king Lolly Jackson was quietly convicted a fortnight ago for shooting a man with a paintball gun in a labour dispute.
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The East African Submarine Cable System is expected to land at Mtunzini, on the northern KwaZulu-Natal coastline, on Saturday.
The minister of women, children and persons with disabilities, Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, has been in her office only "once or twice" this year.