Lee Stuttaford

Agence France Presse would have us believe that the Harry/Meghan ‘crisis’ has ‘shaken the very foundations of Britain’s ancient monarchy’. Actually, however, the ‘crisis’ has

Forget the declaration earlier this month by the African National Congress (ANC) that 2020 must be ‘the year of unity, socio-economic renewal, and nation building’.

In his tribute to Richard Maponya, the doyen of black business who died earlier this month, Cyril Ramaphosa said he “was of that rare breed

Ridiculed and even despised by many British and other political commentators, Boris Johnson has struck two decisive blows for democracy. In the first place, his

Earlier this month, Mangosuthu Buthelezi reminded me of an article in the New York Times Magazine in 1991 in which I was quoted as having

The 17th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture delivered last month by the chief justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, has not attracted as much attention as it warrants. Speaking

Last week Cyril Ramaphosa sounded the alarm about South Africa’s water crisis. Citing the famous line from Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner about ‘water,

Anyone seeking a concise account of the South African government’s failures in tackling poverty and inequality need look no further than its recently published ‘25-year

Forty years ago, British Prime Minister James Callaghan’s Labour government was destroyed by militant trade unions in the so-called ‘winter of discontent’ that brought Margaret

Last week Geordin Hill-Lewis, shadow finance minister in the Democratic Alliance (DA), wrote that South Africa was ‘trapped’ in an ‘obsession with race-based transformation policies’.