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Derek Catsam

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Derek Catsam

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DEMOCRACY

This is America

To those who lament the events at the Capitol on 6 January, saying, “This is not who we are”: unequal, undemocratic, duplicitous is precisely who we are

  • Derek Catsam
8 min read
DETROIT, MI – NOVEMBER 04: Election workers and Election observers and challengers at the Detroit Department of Elections Central Counting Board Voting at TCF Center, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 in Detroit, MI. With the surge in vote by mail/absentee ballots, analysts cautioned it could take days to count all the ballots, leading some states to initially look like victories for President Trump only to later shift towards democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
AMERICA

Diary of an elections spotter

Fear and loathing in Trump’s America, where every bit of news can be worse than no news at all

  • Derek Catsam
9 min read
First off, Chester Williams was a hell of a rugby player. He was not a prototypical wing, but there was an element to his style that was reminiscent of what was long said of Muhammad Ali. (David Munden/Popper Foto/Getty Images)
ABSA CURRIE CUP

Chester Williams and the making of modern South African rugby

Williams, the only black South African player in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, was a complex figure in complex times. He deserves to be remembered as such

  • Derek Catsam
11 min read
Cake and politics: On rugby quotas and the World Cup
COUNTRY

Cake and politics: On rugby quotas and the World Cup

The Rugby Championship, the World Cup, and Springbok politics in South Africa

  • Derek Catsam
11 min read