The roll call: Between Historical betrayals and present misrepresentations
The current obsession with the ANC roll call has distracted many from engaging with the historical and constitutional architecture of...
Africa
Mchunu disbanded task team to protect the drug cartels
The testimony of national police commissioner Fannie Masemola at the Madlanga commission this week placed suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu...
Kinshasa has ‘created a monster it cannot control’
The town of Uvira in South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been paralysed since early September...
San people still ‘invisible, voiceless in their homeland’
More than five decades after Botswana gained independence, the country’s San, who are the first inhabitants of the region, continue...
Lesotho Highlands Water Project must work with women, not against them
South Africa, Lesotho and the project financiers must avoid repeating the mistakes of Phase I of the Lesotho Highlands Water...
The fault lines of Charlie Kirk’s socio-political and theological nationalism
Debates around Charlie Kirk’s assassination swing from what he was, and what he was not. Among the multiple centres is...
Illusion of choice: Democracy a numbers game in Africa’s crowded presidential races
On 16 September, Malawians headed to the polls in what should have been a critical moment for the country’s future....
Rwanda’s reckoning: A father’s reflections on memory, pain and the architecture of hope
There are places in this world that do not merely exist; they echo. They do not simply hold history; they...
Right of reply: In defence of Zambia’s democracy
With about a year to go before Zambia’s next elections, Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa has criticised President Hakainde Hichilema’s record, accusing...
Chicago at 50: A musical that never loses its bite
There’s a familiarity that’s part of the package when you sit down to watch Chicago, the musical that is now...
