F.W. de Klerk was a hero of our time
FW de Clerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, has died at the age of 85. In 2010 Rian Malan…
South Africa Notebook: After Zuma’s fall, and life on the Little Karoo
In recent years, living in South Africa has been a bit like having cancer. The malaise eating us from within…
R.W. Johnson: 40-odd years prophesying the end for South Africa
I think this should begin with a truth-in-journalism disclosure: I know R.W. Johnson well enough to call him Bill. Since…
At least South Africa has the world’s best murder trials
South Africa’s spectacular murder trials – first Oscar Pistorius, now Shrien Dewani – help take minds off other difficulties
What a lost prison manuscript reveals about the real Nelson Mandela
His long-lost prison manuscript sheds new light on the president’s politics, smoothed over in ‘Long Walk to Freedom’
Witch-hunting capitalism in Africa
It’s become trendy to blame capitalism for witchcraft in Africa
The world’s media are waiting for Mandela to die. Here’s why he’s disappointing them
The past few weeks have been an agonising dress rehearsal for the great statesman’s death
