This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 17th June 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York

It’s a lazy cliché that South Africa is a divided society, when in reality there are many things that unite us. Unfortunately, some of the

South Africa’s municipal crisis is worsening, but there is hope that with greater citizen involvement and new political blood, matters could be partially reversed.  The

The United States is kindling a new Cold War across Africa, aimed against Russia. It might only succeed at driving African countries further into the

Amid the noise and fury around the theft of President Ramaphosa’s forex, the sacking of the Public Protector and the arrest of the Gupta brothers

Horrible memories of the terrible events of 1972 came back to me when I heard about the plans of Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister,

My father would have loved the place. It had the kind of wooden floor that he liked.  He would have fancied himself a cowboy from

There is something surreal about the high pitched denunciation of apparent racism that percolates in our public space. The response to the alleged racist urinating

The free, prosperous, and civilised liberal democratic world that we have lived in all our lives, and which we take so for granted, is in

South Africa needs a more ‘activist’ state, President Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week.  State support had provided the country with one of its