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Can Cyril Ramaphosa Revive the South African Dream?

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William Finnegan | January 5, 2018 | The New Yorker Not for the first time, the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, seems to be on the brink of toppling from office. That would be a good thing, were it to happen soon. Under Zuma, South Africa has been on a decade-long descent into kleptocratic mismanagement. “State capture” is an arcane term in most places; in South … [Read more...] about Can Cyril Ramaphosa Revive the South African Dream?

Congo’s Slide Into Chaos: How a State Fails

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Stuart A. Reid | January/February 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs On January 16, 2001, the Democratic Republic of the Congo tumbled into uncertainty. The country’s president, Laurent Kabila, had been sitting in his office at his marble palace in Kinshasa, the capital, when one of his teenage bodyguards entered, drew his pistol, aimed it at Kabila, and fired several … [Read more...] about Congo’s Slide Into Chaos: How a State Fails

Meet the force behind Zimbabwe’s ‘Crocodile’ president

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Ed Cropley | 01 January 2018 | Business Day Intelligence report says General Constantino Chiwenga is now the most feared man in government and party as well as the whole country  HARARE — His wife is a beauty queen, his troops unseated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, and his motorcade is fit for a president. General Constantino Chiwenga, head of the armed forces until … [Read more...] about Meet the force behind Zimbabwe’s ‘Crocodile’ president

Zimbabwe’s military pushed Mugabe out for ‘selfish reasons’, opposition claims

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01 Jan 2018 | News24 Zimbabwean opposition parties have reportedly criticised the appointment of Vice President and former military chief Constantino Chiwenga as the country’s new defence minister. Chiwenga, 61, who led a military takeover that helped end Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule in November, was on Thursday sworn in as one of the country’s two vice … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe’s military pushed Mugabe out for ‘selfish reasons’, opposition claims

This Land Is Their Land

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Suketu Mehta Illustration by Owen Freeman | September 12, 2017 | Foreign Policy Immigration is inevitable. When will the West learn that it promises salvation — not destruction? On Oct. 1, 1977, my parents, my two sisters, and I boarded a Lufthansa plane in the dead of night in Bombay. We were dressed in new, heavy, uncomfortable clothes and had been seen off by our entire … [Read more...] about This Land Is Their Land

All Is Not Forgiven: South Africa and the Scars of Apartheid

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Sisonke Msimang | January/February 2018 Issue | Foreign Affairs In old black-and-white photographs, the antiapartheid activist Ahmed Timol looks elegant, with an open face and a ready smile. One classic shot captures him midstride. Clad in dark sunglasses with a pipe dangling from his mouth, he has the dashing air of a 1950s film star. Shortly after that photo was taken, … [Read more...] about All Is Not Forgiven: South Africa and the Scars of Apartheid