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    Pandemic policies in South Africa: A model of neocolonial state capture

    By Toby Green
    December 6, 2022
    AA Book Review Series: Covid and Custom in South Africa
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  • ANC and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa holding a farewell cocktail function for former president Jacob Zuma in 2018. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsSouth Africa

    The ANC’s power games have led it to a make or break moment

    By Jan Hofmeyr
    October 26, 2022
    As factional fighting dominates South Africa’s ruling party, it is the public that pays the cost. Ever since South Africa’s democratic transition in 1994, ...
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  • President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) with his predecessor, former President Jacob Zuma in 2017. Credit: GCIS.
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    What did we learn from South Africa’s exhaustive state capture commission?

    By Dirk Kotze
    May 16, 2022
    A four-year investigation has revealed the scope and nature of corruption like never before. South Africa’s judicial commission into state capture, known as the ...
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  • EconomyKenyaSouth Africa

    Could two troubled airlines’ pan-African partnership work?

    By Eric Tchouamou Njoya
    January 20, 2022
    The potential risks and rewards of the South African Airways and Kenya Airways’ joint vision. There are very few profitable African airlines. Those operating ...
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    Archiving micro-kindnesses and everyday heroism in South Africa

    By Jess Auerbach
    December 10, 2021
    2021 has been a hard year in South Africa and everyday people have taken strain. But it’s easy to forget that, amidst the multitude ...
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    Rich countries can’t feign shock if the next variant goes undetected

    By Jess Auerbach
    November 29, 2021
    South Africa’s openness helps the world’s pandemic response. The Global North’s rejection of WHO advice in imposing travel bans endangers it. As southern African ...
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  • South Africa local elections 2021. Celebrants waving South African flags on 2021 National Freedom Day. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsSouth AfricaTop story

    What did we learn from South Africa’s local elections?

    By Marius Roodt
    November 18, 2021
    The 2021 elections saw both turnout and the ANC vote drop to record lows. Small parties meanwhile collectively doubled their vote. On 1 November, ...
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    South Africa unrest: We are not a failed state, but a failed global system

    By Jess Auerbach
    July 15, 2021
    South Africa encapsulates global inequalities – and the kinds of tumult we’ll see more and more of worldwide – inside national borders. South Africa ...
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  • Protests and looting have erupted since President Jacob Zuma was imprisoned on 8 July. Credit: GCIS.
    PoliticsSouth Africa

    South Africa: Zuma can’t be allowed to get away with this

    By Mcebisi Ndletyana
    July 15, 2021
    The ex-president’s incarceration was the catalyst, but the causes of unrest have long been bubbling. And things will get worse if he gets his ...
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    Think African Podcast Ep5: We belong here

    By Think African
    July 2, 2021
    African Arguments is delighted to partner with the Think African podcast series, created by Sound Africa in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cape Town. Think African examines the ...
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