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Arsenal fans during their final game of the season against Wolves at the Emirates Stadium. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB

No trophy for second, but Arsenal lived the dream

Mikel Arteta’s work-in-progress squad made the fans believe — and placed football on notice

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
The ANC has confirmed that it has deployed KwaZulu-Natal heavyweights Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Zweli Mkhize to boost its elections machinery in the province.
ANC

Good times are coming as Ramaphosa plays the disaster card

As Nkosazana Disaster Zuma gets ready to once again rule we should fear a cigarette ban to keep the lights on is loading

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president-elect, celebrates with supporters on Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (Tuane Fernandes/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANC

If Brazil’s Lula did it, uBaba Zuma can do it too

The architects of our own Lula Moment in 2007 are silent as the Wenzenists call for the return of Da Zuma

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
When the Madiba party lost its parliamentary majority in 2024 it formed a government of national unity. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Let the number games begin

Monarchy tussles may disrupt my football but at least the rules for the ANC’s national games have been set

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
The Invincibles (no more): Arsenal’s Thierry Henry (right) celebrates the Gunners win. But the tide has turned. Photo: Odd Andersen/AFP
ACE MAGASHULE

Ramaphosa’s in Arteta’s shoes

The president and the Gunners coach inherited own-goal, deadwood ‘players’ and need a few seasons to offload them

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read