The clamor for a ‘credible opposition’ in South Africa?
William Gumede, who wrote a book about the ANC, makes a strange and careless argument–without recourse to evidence–about the ruling party’s fortunes.
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Jonathan Faull
Jonathan Faull is a South African political consultant and writer based in Washington DC.
Madiba: I Remember
The writer, originally from Cape Town, remembers Nelson Mandela’s impact on his life.
Mamphela Ramphele has a Party
Ramphele has never enjoyed widespread grassroots support as a political figure in South Africa and hasn’t been in active in any political movement for at least 30 years now.
The Extreme Makeover of Patri$e Mot$epe
Motsepe was named South Africa’s first black dollar billionaire by Forbes Magazine.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg knows her constitutions
The South African Constitution and the emerging rights jurisprudence of the country’s Constitutional Court are, demonstrably, influential.
The Two Sudans
On July 6 2011, the world’s diplomatic elite flocked to one of the globe’s most underdeveloped
JM Coetzee’s Cricketing Life
The news that J.M. Coetzee had contributed to a book entitled “Australia: Story of a Cricket Country” rankled the author, a committed Coetzeephile, slightly.
Ranking the Chattering Classes
The politics of lists like the “Top Thirty Think Tanks in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Parachute Journalism
Blind clichés, projections and stereotypes masquerading as analysis in Foreign Policy by Karen Leigh, Time Magazine’s correspondent for West Africa.
Malema Time
South African elites and their political parties and trade unions cannot claim to represent the masses anymore. This has created space for Julius Malema’s brand of populist politics.
The Sudan Report
Omar al-Bashir has a bigger problem than the ICC: Ordinary citizens, including the middle classes, taking to the streets against the effects of austerity on their lives.
Desmond Tutu embarks on a life of well-earned dotage
The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town is one of South Africa’s great moral leaders.