A PLACE IN THE SUN An alternative path to prosperity. (Reuters/Joe Penney) SHARE WRITTEN BY Howard W. French OBSESSION China’s Transition June 10, 2014 After days of coordinating with me over patchy cell phone connections,…
Posted on July 9, 2014 by AfricanArgumentsEditor When, midway through the American journalist Howard French’s new book, a Zambian politician tells him dejectedly that “we are not a poor people but we have crowned ourselves…
Susan Booysen says the ANC has faced an inexorable, gradual decline since 2004. This article first appeared on The Conversation. South Africa’s election 2016 local election signals change. For the first time in the country’s democratic era…
BY NEELS BLOM, 01 AUGUST 2016, 05:46 Pravin Gordhan. Picture: THE TIMES FINANCE Minister Pravin Gordhan has in the minds of cogent South Africans established himself as a bit of a hero. Thus elevated, it…
BY ALLISTER SPARKS , 03 AUGUST 2016, 06:12 Jacob Zuma. Picture: AFP PHOTO TODAY could be an historic day in the turbulent story of SA’s evolving democracy, one we may look back on as marking…
/ August 2, 2016 Donwald Pressly: As South Africa prepares itself for the biggest election since 1994, Donwald Pressly asks if voters will do the backlash, just like Brexit voters. He considers whether the anti-establishment,…
John Kane-Berman | 01 August 2016 John Kane-Berman says a less ideologically confused DA would be more cautious about depicting itself as Madiba’s political heir What exactly is the Mandela legacy the Democratic Alliance has…
Jafta J | 21 July 2016 Racist and oppressive cultural traditions have no place in our constitutional order, even though they may exist in history, says ConCourt judge The following is the concurring opinion of…
20 July 2016 Americans, living in America, know who and what is responsible for the crime problem in the country. Even the who and what responsible people know who and what is responsible. Just like…
SOUTH AFRICA Tuesday 15 July 2014 – 6:38pm Amir Kahn (L) from Pakistan and Gracias Mapila, from Congo Brazaville, join hundreds of other refugees, mostly from other African countries, to apply for extensions of their…
