AT the outset, readers need to know that I am deeply suspicious of large financial institutions – though perhaps not so deeply antagonistic as Rolling

As the week began, South Africa was confronted with scenes illustrating a sinister underside to the country. Television viewers couldn’t avoid it. Reporters traversed pillaged

The South African Communist Party has called upon communities to defend the township economy. This is one of the more fortunate consequences of the last

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 9th July 969 – The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer

The job of a historian is to discern links between seemingly unrelated events. Some would argue that the decision by the Americans to support Islamist

The media and social media have been alive with pictures that convey a sense of the sheer normality of looting and destruction in South Africa.

The spate of rioting and looting that began at the weekend has to be a turning point. Never before in our post-1994 history has there

After a 24-hour orgy of violence, I sit alone in my whale-watching room and reflect as I read the many messages that have been sent

‘Very high levels of economic exclusion, failing schools, unchecked corruption, racial nationalist rhetoric from the government, inept and poorly motivated security forces led by people

Amid the chaos that has descended upon the country in the wake of Jacob Zuma’s incarceration, South Africa’s leaders have a lot to answer for.