Precarious power tilts towards Ramaphosa in battle inside South Africa’s governing party
This has pitted two ANC factions against each other: Ramaphosa’s (claiming the cleanup label), and the faction associated with former
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
European Super League: why punishing the breakaway 12 could backfire badly
The proposals are considered so outrageous that even the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, is vowing to find a way
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OBITUARY-Idriss Deby, Chad’s president and West’s ally against Islamists
AARON ROSS IN 30 years as Chad’s president, Idriss Deby emerged as one of Africa’s wiliest political survivors, holding on
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Significant archives are under threat in Cape Town’s fire. Why they matter so much
It’s this that has driven attempts to decolonise the curricula at various higher education institutions. Decolonising is a hard term
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Why I’m committing $500 million to entrepreneurship in Somaliland
ISMAIL AHMED THE power of remittances, the funds migrants send ‘back home’ to family and friends, is at the centre
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Foreign aid can help stem the decline of democracy, if used in the right way
RACHEL M GISSELQUIST and MIGUEL NIÑO-ZARAZÚA DEMOCRACY is having a hard time. In India, once the world’s largest democracy, the
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Frelimo gambled everything on gas – and lost
JOSEPH HANLON THE leadership of Mozambique’s ruling party, Frelimo, was dazzled by gas. The discovery of the second-largest gas reserve
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A woman ahead of her time: The Lesseyton moment
ZUBEIDA JAFFER CHARLOTTE Mannya Maxeke took the unusual step in 1902 to insist on the participation of women in church
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‘Rwanda’s story serves as an uplifting symbol of renewal, even beyond our borders’
PAUL KAGAME THIS may be the 27th time we have marked commemoration, but the occasion is never ordinary. There are
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Tanzania’s Samia Hassan has the chance to heal a polarised nation
Then in 2010, she was elected member of parliament for Makunduchi, sitting in the National Assembly of Tanzania, and was
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