The late South African mining tycoon, Harry Oppenheimer.
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer in his Johannesburg office. (Photo by William Campbell/Sygma via Getty Images
Regarding himself heir to Cecil Rhodes, Oppenheimer deplored the threat to civilisation represented by ‘primitive tribesmen’.
David Gyasi and Keri Russell in The Diplomat.
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The Diplomat suggests that if the ‘special relationship’ is to survive into a world turned topsy turvy by Brexit, Trump and war in Europe, it demands a little TLC.
The “Mandela and me” exhibition includes posters from the Anti-Apartheid Movement’s campaign.
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Corporate interests undermine the British Council’s mission to build trust.
White South Africans own most companies and shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo.
The debate about white monopoly capital in post-apartheid South Africa is good for the country’s politics but it tends to come with bad sociology.
The sun has long set on the commodities boom.
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Anglo American has announced it will cut 85,000 jobs worldwide, as profits slump and mining communities bear the brunt of the commodities crunch.