Africa
Why Zuma’s ouster is good for Lesotho
While the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) has the power to recall a state president deployed by the ANC to that position, legally, a state
The Generals spoke and Mugabe capitulated
When it’s time to go, it’s time to go. Even former president Robert Mugabe in the end, proved not invincible. His day was November 21, 2017. After 37 years as
DisGrace
Grace Mugabe, second wife of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, had a moment of awful clarity about her future three years ago. Speaking about Joice Mujuru, the woman who was then
On being the solution
Correcting where (what/when) others have gone/done wrong seems the darnedest thing to the figure that relies more on the weaker instinct of the common critic, that is; them that play
Unpacking the historical roots of Lesotho’s political instability
“I regard conversion of Basuto into British subjects… as the best guarantee we can take against future disturbances (i.e. instability).” Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse to the Secretary of State for
keep on moving
The recurring image of the bus as a universal motif representative of the political landscape on the African continent has proven itself true time and time again. Only the drivers
Adult Supervision
Here’s the scenario. Late one evening Donald Trump is watching Fox News and a report comes on that North Korea is planning to launch a missile that can reach the
we talk more and do less
I use the 4th October each year to look back into our past and to reflect. And by “reflect”, I do not mean to romanticise about the past. I mean to
What nature teaches us
Ants should have a special place reserved for them everywhere they go; forget the new declarations on their being ‘invasive’ by the most destructive species on earth, the newbie: the
Coping with Trump
We have to face facts: there is no US federal government any more in the normal sense of the word. Social Security payments still get made and the 2.79 million
