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Credit ratings are not fair towards African Economies
Credit ratings are not fair towards African Economies: Africa Must Stop Exporting Wealth and Importing CreditworthinessBy Prof Nicky MorganAfrica finds itself in a peculiar and deeply consequential paradox. The continent possesses some of the world’s richest deposits...
Dearest Madiba
I write this article to mark Mandela Day (18 July) and hope my words reach you wherever you are in the heavens. In this month 16 years ago (on 11 July 2010) you and Mam Graca floated across the field in a golf cart at Soccer City in Johannesburg, the first World Cup...
Where will this week take South Africans and Africans?
By Professor Nicky MorganHistorical solidarity creates a moral obligation to treat people humanely and fairly, but it does not require a state to surrender its responsibility to govern migration, protect public resources, or prioritize the constitutional rights of its...
An expensive lesson for the Western World
By Chloe MalulekeWhen the full text of the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran was released, analysts expecting the language of a balanced peace agreement found something rather different. What the document describes, point by...
March and March came to Wynberg on Saturday 20 June
By Zubeida JafferThe first anti-immigrant march in the southern suburbs of the Cape was set to start in Wynberg at 9a.m and end at Newlands at 3p.m. I am a resident of Wynberg and joined the gathered group shortly after 9a.m identifying myself as a reporter. The...
Remembering June 16
By Zubeida JafferTo protest against the killings of schoolchildren in Soweto on June 16, 1976,the people of the Cape joined the nationwide call for a stayaway four years later. This is their story.
