News/Politics

By pure coincidence, two apartheid-era South Africans, Mkhize and Van der Merwe — black and a white — find themselves as neighbours in a foreign a land. Back home they could never have been neighbours. But out there in foreign shores they “discover” that they actually have more in common than with anyone else around […]

By Lungile Dube Every girl grows up dreaming of a fairy tale ending but that’s not always the case, especially in real life. This reminds me of a young lady who became the envy of almost every woman who grew up believing in Cinderella tales. Nothando Dube became Swaziland king Mswati III’s 12th wife at […]

Its possibly part of my genetic makeup, but I am a firm believer in consensus (or what the Dutch call “poldermodel”) and multilateralism. In essence, everyone needs to adhere to the rules in order to ensure that life can operate in a fairly predictable manner. In December 2009 I blogged about the potential role that […]

Given the circumstances, does Adv Thuli Madonsela really trust police-appointed ‘guards’, should she get them?

Mandela and I have come a long way. Our story starts at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia. In those days he slept by day and slipped by night – Mandela by day and David Motsamai by night. One moment he was a dirty car mechanic. The next moment he was a Zulu man from Natal – […]

Nelson Mandela has been at the forefront of the struggle for non-racism and national unity to end all forms of apartheid in South Africa. The world will be celebrating this on his 93rd birthday come July 18. Even though much of his political activity — including leading the military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto We […]

Apartheid wrought its greatest damage through a deliberate policy of discriminatory education spending but paradoxically, Afrikaner Calvinism demanded strict accountability.

Like Walter Mitty, there are nations whose adventures are mostly imaginary. Think Belgium and New Zealand.