
Cape Town’s make-believe politics
Cape Town remains one of the most racially and economically segregated cities in South Africa, and there aren’t many signs of things getting better.

Cape Town remains one of the most racially and economically segregated cities in South Africa, and there aren’t many signs of things getting better.


Rafael Marques de Morais, despite being labeled a foreign agent by the Angolan state, has always insisted that Angolans need to resolve their own problems.

The made-upness and the shallowness of the Democratic Alliance of South Africa's vision of a non-racial future.

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.

The politics of lists like the "Top Thirty Think Tanks in sub-Saharan Africa."

A Mexican research group has listed the world's most dangerous cities based on homicide rates. South Africa's cities finish tops.

Nelson Mandela has always elicited divergent, incorrect and unrealistic reactions among his detractors and supporters.

Chika Unigwe has been at the forefront of solidarity efforts in support of the #OccupyNigeria protests. Tom Devriendt spoke to her.

Ethiopia forcibly relocates rural populations, often at gunpoint and never with any consultation, so the land can become "more productive."

The latest entrant to our series where we ask photographers to talk to us about their five favorite images, is Glenna Gordon.

Factual media reporting on how South African relationships and attitudes, especially between blacks and whites, evolve are hard to come by.

Before he died, most Americans had very negative views of Martin Luther King Jnr., or were ignorant about his aims. They still are.

The possibility of a new politics emerging from the new left social movements to reconfigure the nation state.

The legendary Senegalese singer is running for president. Not everyone takes him seriously.

Most Nigerians don’t trust their government and overpaid public representatives with taxpayers’ money. So, they rose up.

Some journalism and "analysis" about postapartheid South Africa by outsiders amounts to hysteria dressed up as analyses.