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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansThe participation of Miss South Africa 2021, Lalela Mswane, in the Miss Universe competition in Israel on 12 December has created a furore. Some South Africans support her participation while others have called for her withdrawal. The Boycott, Disinvest and Sanctions movement in South Africa views Miss South Africa’s participation a...
The issue of land, especially its redistribution, remains contentious in South Africa 27 years after the formal end of apartheid. Land redistribution was promised at the end of apartheid. The failure of the African National Congress (ANC) government to do so is emblematic of its failure to fundamentally transform the country. Yet, ...
On Monday South Africans across every creed took to the polls to make their mark on the canvass of democracy. However, this time around less than half of those eligible to vote took to the polls and the ramifications of this presents a scary reality for South Africa’s democratic project. Moreover, for the country’s most dominant party ...
Though a ritual, elections yield new insights about the state of the citizenry and the political elite. Life changes, either for the better or worse. Electoral outcomes are a statement about how citizens feel at that moment and signal their inclination to take charge of their future. The level of turnout and the political choices vo...
Thula Simpson’s new book, History of South Africa from 1902 to the Present, is an event-packed narrative history. It is reminiscent of the style of Eric Walker’s History of Southern Africa eight decades ago – a very influential book, prescribed for many university history classes – except this time black South Africans are central to t...
South Africa’s historic 2021 local elections have highlighted a deep hole in its party politics – the governing party is in decline, but most voters will not vote for its rivals. The elections are historic because they are the first s...
The number of political parties in South Africa has increased significantly from the 19 that participated in the first democratic election in 1994. Both 2011 and 2016 saw the number of political parties grow. But this year the number has...
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