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Most South African’s don’t appreciate that we are living in a new world, shaped — and increasingly determined — by a heating...
Although Jacob Zuma has fallen, South Africa has not escaped the miasma of a “Zumafied Parliament”. His reign represented the degeneration of...
The ANC has made a dangerous habit of bringing post-apartheid South Africa to the brink of instability and the common ruin of all. The resignation of former president Jacob Zuma and his
POLITICSHistorians reviewing the recent short span of history, the past 50 years, or even the longue durée, over 200 years, would...
During South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, national liberation politics was mass politics. It was grounded in building class and national...
The nightmare of the Jacob Zuma presidency has its roots in the South African Communist Party-led (SACP) bandwagon to displace the neoliberal Thabo...
There is a rather one-sided, reductive and commonplace perception that South African President Jacob Zuma is a dangerous man. Included in this is an assertion that the...
Food is essential to the human condition. Food politics have shaped world history. It was central to the shift from nomadic to settled societies...
In a surprising departure from the corporate-controlled narrative on...
The post-colonial left in Africa has been savagely defeated over the past few decades. Southern Africa in particular was a Cold War battleground,...