South Africa’s Constitutional Court decision to sentence former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court is momentous. Amid the incompetence, chaos and corruption that dominates media...
African National Congress
Is South Africa ready for coalition government?
What India’s post-independence experience can tell us about South Africa’s political future The ANC’s share of electoral votes has been in decline for the better part of the past decade. Based on its current service...
South Africa’s liberation struggle and the inside/outside conundrum
The ANC - a legacy of internal struggle for the throne Forty years ago, the Matola raid (January 1981) resulted in the massacre of 15 African National Congress (ANC) freedom fighters by apartheid forces. Surprisingly,...
Africa’s mass trauma
Why Africans still vote for toxic post-liberation tyrants Since the end of colonialism, apartheid and white-minority regimes, many African countries appear to have had disproportionally large numbers of psychopathic,...
Africa’s freedom fighters and the challenge of transformation
The end of an era for liberation movements? After defeating colonialism, white minority rule and post-colonial authoritarian governments, many of Africa’s liberation movements seem to have lost ground in the democratic...
Repression in Zimbabwe exposes South Africa’s weakness
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe and President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa in 2018. PHOTO GCIS Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s despatch of envoys to...
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