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Drawing lines in art and politics

Judy Ann Seidman’s retrospective shows the complicity of antiblack racism in the white left

Mugabe and the tradition to not speak ill of the dead

What is the proper way for young Zimbabweans to remember Robert Mugabe’s legacy?

Conflict: A game ranger patrols next to the damaged fence that borders the Kruger National Park and Mozambique.

Kruger’s contested borderlands

An anti-poaching buffer zone in Mozambique has led to a company being accused of grabbing land

No prime minister has served a full five-year term over the past decade. Now it appears Majoro and his ruling coalition may not be able to escape this chaotic political cycle. (Oupa Nkosi)

Mysterious murder casts dark shadows over the Mountain Kingdom

Lipolelo Thabane’s death plunges Lesotho into yet another period of dangerous political instability.

There is still no clarity on probe into Samora Machel’s death 30 years ago

South Africa and Mozambique on Monday commemorated the 30th anniversary of the former Mozambican president’s tragic death

Flying high: Jacinto Veloso

‘First hijacker’ fails to get plodding tale airborne

As an introduction to a memoir, one can’t imagine a more dramatic opening than hijacking a plane and landing it in a hostile country.

Who killed Samora Machel?

Mozambican authorities need to continue to seek the truth on who killed Samora Machel, the country’s first president, almost 21 years ago. The call was made by Feliciano Gundana,…

How Samora Machel signed his own death warrant

How Samora Machel signed his own death warrant

There was motive for the then South African government to kill Mozambique’s Samora Machel, and there is plenty of evidence to back up these claims.