The scene is by now familiar: a beaming Zuma clad in Zulu warrior regalia, leading the ecstatic crowd in his trademark song, Umshini Wam (“Bring me my machine gun”). Equally well-known: Zuma received little formal education, is a polygamist and father ...
Every year in December and January — the summer holidays — South Africa practically comes to a standstill. The small but growing middle class head for the country’s glorious beaches; poorer people join the exodus from the cities to visit family in the ...
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The image of an unknown young black man being burned alive in a South African township street defined the recent xenophobic violence, mostly by black South Africans against black foreigners, many of them refugees from Zimbabwe. (Investigations by a ...
The scene was unbelievable. As Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota, South Africa’s defence minister and chairman of the African National Congress, tried to get the party’s 52nd national conference in Polokwane under way, most of the 4,000 delegates made his task ...
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