The Quiet Violence of Saints
Photo: Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who died on December 5, 2013, striking a boxer stance from his youth (and seems to almost sheath his fist), when greeting FW de Klerk at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 1992. Mandela had given De Klerk a verbal spanking a month earlier at the […]
Fear and Loathing in the ANC – Part Two
It is almost a year since President Jacob Zuma swept to the leadership of the African National Congress for the second time at its national elective conference at Mangaung. Zuma’s margin of victory cemented his hold on the oldest liberation movement on the continent and also concretised a new way of political organisation and patronage […]