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Historian Professor Samuel Huntington, author of such books as The Clash of Civilisations and Political Order in Changing Societies.

Harvard legend Samuel Huntington was not an apartheid advisor

Sazi Bongwe’s branding of the late professor as a ‘villain of apartheid’ and advisor to PW Botha is false, slanderous and unethical

Gerrit Olivier

Undermining: Leaders in increasingly autocratic countries, such as Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hold elections only to cement their own authority. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

Democracy still rules – for now

The world should be wary of creeping autocratisation, even in democratic countries

Chris Jones