Voices
Signs Of the Times
Is Professor Jansen’s imminent departure a sign of things to come, an academic and intellectual flight?
Dispatches
Pope Francis and his advisors should consider new publication strategies.
Dispatches
Among the many speakers calling for the president's resignation were veteran A.N.C. leaders.
Signs Of the Times
The domestic affairs of South Africa have been interfered with by a foreign multinational.
Dispatches
President Zuma agreed that he would “pay back the money” but denied that he was personally to blame.
Signs Of the Times
The crime genre’s current popularity is an expression of a new political concern.
Dispatches
President Zuma didn’t address the fundamental problems we face: low investor confidence, failing infrastructure and unemployable citizens.
Dispatches
At roughly midway in Jacob Zuma’s second (and constitutionally last) term as president of South Africa polls and growing numbers of protests both suggest a growing discontent with the ruling African National Congress (A.N.C.).
Signs Of the Times
President Zuma may still giggle in public; South Africans are not amused.
Dispatches
After decades of struggle for tertiary education and political liberation, a new generation remains trapped in what is now a kind of "democratic poverty." Democracy has not delivered the goods.