After the deadline: what did anti-immigration marches actually achieve?
The goal was never subtle. The movement popularised a deadline of 30 June 2026 for all undocumented immigrants to leave South Africa, with its founder warning that supporters would take to the streets if the issue was not addressed by
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The manual nobody handed Pretoria’s diplomats
There is a ritual that plays out every few months in Pretoria. A newly arrived political counsellor, three weeks into a posting, sits down for an introductory coffee and asks a version of the same question: who actually decides things
I think, therefore I arm
I think I have been thinking. I accept that this is an odd thing to say. I am wise enough to know as much. I have never been a fool, and I keep senility at bay.
News Focus: History comes home
The 900-year-old artefact that signals the beginning of the shift of England’s attention from Scandinavia and the North Sea to continental Europe – and significant changes in the landholdings, culture and language of England – has returned, for a while,
Humour and politics
Today’s Daily Friend Live features John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer. They discuss the story of Count Binface and the role of humour in politics. They also discuss the new Minister of Agriculture. Lastly, they discuss China’s new space rocket. https://youtube.com/live/uH_UiiFFJ1I?feature=share
We copied the wrong country
South Africa’s post-liberation government leant heavily on the model for post-colonial economic redress in Malaysia. It chose wrong.
Mbalula reads the room – and takes aim at 2027
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula told journalists at Luthuli House this week that the party had to “read the room correctly” on March and March, the anti-immigration movement that mobilised tens of thousands of South Africans on 30
They shall live for evermore: Delville Wood 110 years later
On 15 July 1916, the 1st South African Infantry Brigade advanced into a square kilometre of wood on the outskirts of the village of Longueval, during what became known as “the battle of the Somme”. Six days later, of the
England really needs this World Cup
I am admittedly not a football buff, but when Bafana were (admirably) vanquished and Donald Trump goosed FIFA right in the CEO’s balloon knot, I was torn between supporting Norway and supporting England. Now they’re playing each other on Sunday.