Politics & SocietyDispatches
Persisting low-level to acute crises throughout southern Africa may make 2017 a year to remember with regret.
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Chaos and intransigence in the universities is matched by absurd criminal charges against a minister of finance who may only be doing his job too well.
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The decision by South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority to charge Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan and two associates with fraud is significant to say the least.
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African Jesuits vow to help create a new generation of leaders for the continent.
Signs Of the Times
Just when we thought that the Hawks (the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) had finally got their claws out of South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, they’re back! Conveniently waiting until after the local elections, they have once again subpoenaed Gordhan regarding
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President Jacob Zuma has insisted that he fully supports his minister of finance but claims he can do nothing to stop the investigation.
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The local elections suggest an uneasy period for municipal governance in general and the A.N.C.’s leadership in the country.
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The 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) was held in Durban, South Africa on July 18-22.
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Grahamstown, the small university city that hosts South Africa’s annual National Festival of the Arts each year, is historically a frontier town—the meeting place in the 19th century between the British Empire and the Xhosa nation, before the latter was annexed, creating the present-day
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On Tuesday morning the main national road was blocked by debris and tires, street disturbance similar to the kind of actions folks who are old enough will remember were common in streets leading into townships during the protests in the 1980s apartheid era.