Andrew Kenny

The news that Shell is going to quit South Africa has led to much interesting speculation and much silliness. Is it leaving for ‘portfolio management’

Do good policies always lose votes? In an election campaign, if a political party offered clear, sound policies that have proved successful wherever they have

Apartheid essentially began in May 1948 when the National Party won the whites-only general election (on seats, not on total votes). It eventually set up

The most memorable newspaper headline I ever saw was in England 50 years ago to this month. It surprised me − shocked me, I suppose.

“It should never be, and must never be, that atrocities, gross human rights violations and genocide should somehow carry less weight because of the race,

Eskom’s continued failures and its recently announced price hikes are leading to more and more calls for a free market in electricity. How would it

How does the ANC feel about this? On Friday 22 March, gunmen broke into a big rock concert at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow

Less than 80 kilometres separate Haiti from Cuba. In Haiti in 1804, a large group of black men staged the most successful slave uprising in

By far the greatest measure of democracy is the ability of the people to kick out the ruling party in a free election. In South

Thirty years of ANC rule have brought massive inequality to South Africa. The ANC inherited one type of inequality from the apartheid state and turned