The “white genocide” narrative works inside this wider machinery. It racialises South Africa’s internal contradictions for foreign consumption. It turns a country struggling with the unresolved consequences of colonialism and apartheid into a supposed persecutor of whites. It erases land theft, labour exploitation, racial capitalism and the real suffering of the African majority. It invites external intervention and commercial leverage through racial fear
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans in Israel to cross the land border into Jordan — one of the few remaining safe exit routes
An edited extract from Craig Foster’s memoir, Amphibious Soul
François le Vaillant painted a uniquely vivid picture of Khoikhoi tribes on the brink of settler-colonial genocide
There are only two sea routes linking Europe with East Africa and much of Asia. Either you sail around the Cape of Good Hope or through the Suez Canal
Satellite tracking devices have shed light on an astonishing trans-Atlantic odyssey undertaken by the leatherback turtle.