Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains an immense open-air laboratory of what Africa could be and what, unfortunately, it still is. Certain choices made by Nelson Mandela in the name of the hope of integration have created undesirable and certainly unpredictable side effects.
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The African mining world, and not only that, is hell. But it is not very well known. There are names, like those of the South Africans of Gemfields, which are unknown to the general public, and yet they have a century of history and are number one
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is one step closer to proceedings that will lead to his resignation. As in the case of his predecessor (and, perhaps, successor), Jacob Zuma, an independent commission of enquiry has been able to demonstrate serious examples of corruption – a commission manoeuvred
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A few months ago we wrote about the riots in KwaZulu-Natal, and how these were the way in which former President Zuma and his accomplices (part of the Zulu monarchy, the iNgonyama Trust, the ANC and, above all, local organised crime) were preparing to give South Africa’s
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Madiba’s dream is dead. For almost four years now, South Africa’s democratic system has been close to collapse. Poverty, disease, lack of education, lack of prospects, lack of jobs and lack of health care have created on the one hand a generation of cynical, arrogant and corrupt
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Although we have grown up in a Eurocentric culture, we now know that in the time of the Romans and Greeks, great civilisations flourished in Africa, led by ultra-centenarian monarchies. The expansion of the Sahara desert, colonialism and the slave trade have erased almost everything. The Zulu
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A little over 30 years ago, on 30 June 1991, the South African parliament repealed the inhuman Apartheid laws: until that day, blacks were denied the right to vote and political participation, education, access to the most lucrative jobs, and property – all of which forced them
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