Governance

Starting around Martin Luther King Day in mid-January, right through the month of February, and truth be told, from March to December, I’m challenged directly and indirectly to defend the idea of ‘February is Black History Month’ (or, as some call it, ‘Hire-A-Black-Person Month’).

Mozambique’s newly elected president, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi [1], may be the very last opportunity for the liberation party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO) to retain its grip on power.

Age has not slowed Robert Mugabe down. If anything, the opposite is true: the Zimbabwean president is at the peak of his powers, and revelling in his new role as African Union chairperson. If only he would use his political prowess for the good rather than evil. By SIMON ALLISON.

Early January, Russia and four other ex-Soviet republics completed finally the creation of a new economic alliance intended to bolster their integration.

Sixty years ago my Dad, Mom, my sisters and I sat on our camp chairs in the sand of the smallholding Dad called his farm just outside of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Together we watched the sun setting, the warmth of our braai fire at our backs.

The 27th of January 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of the ‘liberation’ of Auschwitz-Birkenau. This is the concentration camp in Poland where an estimated 1.1 million people were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany during World War II.

INTRODUCTION

The coming fork in the road provides three distinct directions. The poorly-lit one straight ahead suffers from potholes that force stop-start-reverse maneuvers.

‘Lies may be flying for decades but one minute of truth would catch up with them and overtake them’. —A Yoruba proverb

Some countries have stopped appointing sitting judges to hot-potato political positions because of the fear of the violation of a centuries-old truism which simply reposes majestically: "Justice must not only be done, it must also be seen to be done." These democratic countries instead appoint re