US President Donald Trump after sacking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
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Relations between the US and Africa are unlikely to improve while Trump remains president. But that doesn’t mean the continent should remain passive.
South Africa’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa combines easy charm with shrewdness.
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What makes a successful presidential performance and does South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa stack up?
President Cyril Ramaphosa during the late night announcement of his new cabinet.
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Overall South Africa’s new president has a cabinet that forms a team with whom he can work.
Jacob Zuma.
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The obituary of the Zuma administration can be summed up with its ethos: grab as much and as fast as you can.
Cyril Ramaphosa addresses MPs after being elected president of South Africa.
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Jacob Zuma was removed by the people’s effect, which connected the dots of corruption, a mismanaged state and rapacious capitalism.
Cyril Ramaphosa being sworn in as the President of South Africa by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
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Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki sought to use South Africa’s diplomatic service to enable the country to punch above its weight.
Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a rally to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s centenary year in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Cyril Ramaphosa is no Messiah, and when the post-Zuma champagne corks stop popping, South Africans need to assess him as a mere mortal.
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Proof of time travel, false memories or a parallel universe? A look at the wacky world of the ‘Mandela Effect’.
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“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
New ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa moments before winning.
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Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to emphasise stability - in government and the ANC. Given his history he is likely to want to stabilise the economy rather than pursue radical interventions.
This sculpture in London commemorates Nelson Mandela, who set up the African National Congress’ armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), in 1961 when he lost hope that passive and non-violent resistance to the apartheid government would bear fruit.
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Seeking justice, not peace, in our world changes the conversation about conflict. Conflict has proven integral to achieving a more equitable and secure society.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 86th birthday and the unveiling of an arch in his honour outside St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town.
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Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu embraces everything noble in Aristotelian virtue ethics and African philosophical systems alike.
Nelson Mandela and his comrade, anti-apartheid activist, Fatima Meer.
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Two South African “romance” struggle auto/biographies have focalised the anti-apartheid struggle through the lives of heroic women who were bound by love.
Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
A scholar analyzes the history of the Nobel Peace Prize to ask: What difference has it made?
Leaders use translators during the inauguration of President Mr João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço of Angola.
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Raising the status of the African languages to that of official languages in South Africa post-1994 led to an explosion of translation and interpreting work in local and foreign languages.
Andile Gumbi beats down his opponent Given Mkhize in the King Kong musical.
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The returned musical “King Kong” embodies the germinating seeds of two potential and mutually exclusive South Africas.
Barack Obama on a 2013 visit to South Africa.
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Barack Obama may have chosen Mandela’s words for his tweet precisely because they offered some distance from the political space in the US.
Posters of various newspapers paying tribute after the death of former South African President Nelson in 2013.
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Some have suggested that the publisher and author of ‘Mandela’s Last Years’ were simply attempting to cash in on the Mandela legacy. This is not a basis for the withdrawal of a book.
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The concept of dignity is not universal. It means different things to different people and different cultures.
A controversial book about Nelson Mandela’s last years has been withdrawn.
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The contentious book documenting Nelson Mandela’s last days that was pulled of the shelves left many unanswered questions. Judgement must be suspended until it’s content is made public.