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Many South Africans hold onto the hope that a win in the World Cup translates into another defining moment for the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (left) arriving at Waterkloof Airforce Base Airport in Pretoria. He is welcomed by Minister Naledi Pandor.
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South Africa and Nigeria have had a turbulent relationship dating back to the early 1990s.
New Zealand’s Sonny Bill Williams is tackled by South Africans RG Snyman (right) and Frans Malherbe during a Rugby World Cup 2019 match in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.
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South Africa needs a new progressive sports movement that works for equality and peace based on mass participation and social justice.
Gandhi had a lot to say about how business leaders should behave.
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Although Gandhi is best known for expelling the British from India and inspiring the likes of King and Mandela, he also wrote a lot about the behavior of good business leaders.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the funeral of his predecessor, Robert Mugabe.
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It remains to be seen how much longer the ‘old men syndrome’ will persist in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, despite growing frustration among the politically powerless.
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela and deputy president Frederik De Klerk in May 1994.
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The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.
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Election to the Security Council is prestigious for member states because it gives them a seat at the highest table of global decision-making.
South Africa has struggled to get schooling right across the board.
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It’s easy to report on access and inputs, but much more difficult to achieve educational quality and meaningful outcomes.
Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, megalomaniac? Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones.
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Some lessons from leadership theory for anyone aspiring to sit on the Iron Throne.
Actor Peter Paul Muller as Bram Fischer in the film ‘An Act of Defiance’.
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South African lawyer Bram Fischer has been idealised in a post-1994 context. He was raised in a position of privilege, but he used it to defy the injustice of the society that raised him.
Nelson Mandela and outgoing president Frederik Willem de Klerk.
Nelson Mandela’s dream of a great rainbow nation has been badly but not fatally undermined by corruption, violence and inequality.
Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s “Gangster State” is one of South Africa’s top sellers.
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Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers.
The collapse of VBS Mutual Bank in South Africa shows that corruption is endemic.
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Much deeper social forces underlie the struggles within the governing ANC and society over the shape of the economy.
A statue of Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie, at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa.
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Leaders go in and out of fashion, making statues built in their memory a tricky issue.
Let us now praise famous men.
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Several outstanding women were nominated, but Rainbow Murray, an adviser to the series, says the public vote showed how we’re still more inclined to recognise male achievement.
In this October 1998 photo, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu dance after Tutu handed over the final report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Pretoria.
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Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the launch of the governing ANC’s 2019 elections manifesto in Durban.
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The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
Peter Storey (middle) outside the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, 1985.
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Christian leaders played a very significant role in fighting apartheid. One of them, Peter Storey, tells in his autobiography what shaped his convictions.
Umkhonto weSizwe founder Nelson Mandela, receives military training at an Algerian FLN camp in Morocco, 1962.
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The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon’s thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.
The TRC’s first hearings in 1996. Left to right: Nomonde Calata, a TRC counsellor, and Nyameka Goniwe.
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Twenty years after the final report of South Africa’s Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain “unfinished business”.