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South Africa: Vice President Scott Calls South Africans ‘Very Backward’

Cape Town — Zambia’s vice president Guy Scott launched an astonishing attack on President Jacob Zuma when he reportedly compared him to South Africa’s last apartheid leader, FW de Klerk. Speaking to the UK Guardian newspaper after Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, Scott hinted at Zuma’s arrogance on handling the political conflict in Zimbabwe. He described Zuma Continue Reading...

Chinua Achebe obituary Founding father of African fiction whose novels chronicled Nigeria’s troubled history

Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82, was Africa’s best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction. The publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958 not only contested European narratives about Africans but also challenged traditional assumptions about the form and function of the novel. His creation of a hybrid that Continue Reading...

South Africa: President Zuma Must Take the Lead in the Fight Against Corruption

press release Yesterday during the ANC’s birthday celebrations in Durban, President Zuma called on institutions to keep up the fight against crime and corruption, and not to become complacent. This would be welcome if we could take him seriously. If the ANC want the South African people to believe that they are serious about fighting Continue Reading...

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