‘Of particular concern is the independence — or lack thereof — of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’
It is the ANC’s record of corruption that will be weighing on voters’ minds as they go to the polls next year
You see, Mandela was never Mandela but rather the embodiment of the best of all of us
‘The truth is that the likes of France continue to benefit from migration while still waging a war on migrants’
‘That familiar confluence of triumph and tragedy is what builds our ability to understand and share the feelings of each other’
‘How far can you fall in the three days that you stood in line, having been forced to borrow money to pay taxi fares to get to a collection point?’
‘We shudder to think what could happen should two KwaZulu-Natal powerhouses, the king and the former president — both under threat — come together’
‘As the M&G turns its focus to allegations of abuse of power in the NGO space, our work has been met with hostility. And it has left us perplexed’
‘Cue the now all-too-familiar pattern of patronage — houses, overseas trips, spa treatments’
In South Africa — which we see as ‘our land’ — we too are watching the borderisation of the state