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Month: November 2021

  • Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma Unrest that Set South Africa Alight

    Qaanitah Hunter, Kaveel Singh and Jeff Wicks. Eight Days in July: Inside the Zuma Unrest that Set South Africa Alight (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021) ON Monday and Tuesday 12 and 13 July this year our […]

    November 29, 2021Book Reviews

     
  • Deep Collusion: Bain and the Capture of South Africa

    Athol Williams, Deep Collusion: Bain and the Capture of South Africa (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2021) IT’S not unusual for South African whistleblowers to go into hiding overseas. The two computer technicians who uncovered the Gupta […]

    November 25, 2021Book Reviews

     
  • A rolling insurrection in South Africa?

    FIFTY years ago, Richards Bay on the Zululand coast was hardly more than a spot for recreational fishing. Today it is the site of South Africa’s deepest harbour and main bulk port, shifting 80 million […]

    November 23, 2021Sharp Thoughts

     
  • The ongoing saga of Mzala’s ‘Chief with a Double Agenda’

    FEW people will recognise the title Inqaba Yabasebenzi. Nor did many back in November 1987 when Inkatha, as the partial price of participation in peace talks in the growing Natal civil war, demanded that the […]

    November 17, 2021Sharp Thoughts

     
  • For my Country: Why I Blew the Whistle on Zuma and the Guptas

    Themba Maseko, For my Country: Why I Blew the Whistle on Zuma and the Guptas (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) THIS might well have been the routine story of a young struggle activist who graduated to […]

    November 14, 2021Book Reviews

     
  • ANC political culture and the South African crisis

    NOTHING appears to separate the worlds of Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma more obviously than their attitudes towards the Zondo Commission into State Capture. Ramaphosa turned up for two apparently co-operative rounds; Zuma when he […]

    November 9, 2021Sharp Thoughts

     

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