by Mayibuye Magwaza
This will probably be my last post - Laurence should be back soon.
South Africa’s Constitution is on a pretty high pedestal in South African political discourse. We are informed that it is progressive and wonderful and in general, it’s rarely questioned or challenged.
This is good, to the extent that it ought to frame [...]

Reihan Salam at The American Scene has some thoughts on South Africa.

During the campaign, Jacob Zuma mastered the art of telling audiences what they wanted to hear. He would appear before Afrikaans farm communities, black township residents, left-wing university students and business-owning investors, assuring each group equally that their interests would be looked-after by the new government. Zuma was also notoriously reluctant to talk about policy, [...]

David Smith on the similarities between South Africa and America:
In both America and South Africa, race remains a significant factor in social inequality, crime patterns or trying to predict how people will vote. On the surface, South Africa is the country that apparently flicked a switch to install a black governing elite for its majority [...]