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South Africa’s last “government of national unity” was back in 1994. It took four years of hard negotiations to put it together — and it...
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of the African National Congress (ANC), is wealthy, charming, smart — and notoriously indecisive. Helen Zille, federal...
Last Thursday, a television news crew made its way to former South African President Jacob Zuma’s homestead, an ugly monstrosity controversially...
When it comes to bringing a knife to a gunfight, Zimbabweans have got game. In 2017, after 37 years of kleptocratic rule by the late President Robert...
Former president Jacob Zuma’s old isiZulu nickname is ringing around South Africa again. Phunyuka bamphethe (literally meaning “s/he who always...
The rise of Bassirou Diomaye Faye to Senegal’s presidency, making him Africa’s youngest democratically elected leader at 44, is not just a...
Senegal President Macky Sall is an outlier in his west African neighborhood: a constitutionalist in a coup-splattered region experiencing serious...
As any observer of the South African political economy will tell you, Nelson Mandela’s country is long due a lucky break. But it won’t get that...