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Tribute: David Lacey, the greatest football correspondent ever to write in English
David Lacey, who died earlier this month at age 83, leaves an imposing legacy: his writing is the standard by which every football journalist will forever be judged
Book extract: Media critique is not a crime
Journalists need to value criticism of their work to the same degree they value press freedom, argues Julie Reid in this extract from ‘Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the…
What is this place?: The visual simulacrum of South Africa in the Covid-19 lockdown
Why is the visual depiction of this country in centre-left international online news publications so unrecognisable?
Laundering Isabel dos Santos
“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe who are willing to loot without conscience as…
How the Nigerian and Kenyan media handled Cambridge Analytica
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta recently signed into law the Data Protection Bill. Passed after several years of debate and delay, the new law places restrictions on the…
SA mercenaries are ‘giving Boko Haram a hiding’
The vexed leftovers of the apartheid military are reportedly turning the tide in Nigeria.
Chirpy Mugabe plays to the gallery and lays into Blair
Robert Mugabe, on a rare state visit to South Africa this week, spoke off the cuff in a monologue that varied from pointed to rambling to witty.
DRC protests brew anger and grief
Violence erupted in Kinshasa as Joseph Kabila allegedly angles for an illicit third term.
Dubai royals hunt out Maasai land
Plans to turn ancestral Maasai land into a reserve for a Dubai royal family appears to be going ahead.