”In Africa, all roads lead to Jozi. Follow planes in African skies — from London, Atlanta, Delhi — or trace the dust behind African buses or the direction of footprints and you are more likely to end up in Joburg than anywhere else. Ah, Johannesburg, the world’s most underrated city”.

The South African Communist Party has slammed a document penned by Gauteng MEC for Finance Jabu Moleketi and former diplomat Josiah Jele attacking the party, calling it a ”modern form of rooigevaar”.

Do this week’s bombings signal the rise of a right-wing ”Boer al-Qaeda”? No one in authority would say so outright this week, but there seems little doubt that the bombings and attempted bombings in Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit are the work of the far right.

After losing three previous Brazilian presidential elections, Luiz Inacio ”Lula” da Silva, the working-class former trade union leader, has won this time as ”Lula Lite”. He has modified his policies, his clothes and his image. He chose a rich businessman as his running mate.