What do the following four World Cup games have in common? Serbia v. Ghana, 13 June, Pretoria Slovenia v. USA, 18 June, Johannesburg Nigeria v. Tolerable Korea, 22 June, Durban Commie Korea v. Ivory Coast, 25 June, Nelspruit Give up? Your faithful scribe is gonna be at all four of ’em. Laduma!!!!!!!
Texas in Africa (who is in Georgia) has a thoughtful, perceptive post on an alarming (and surprising) upsurge of violence, specifically a spate of grenade attacks, in Kigali.
While both the European Union and the United States are extending targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe, South African President Jacob Zuma believes that a change is in order: “Our view is that the unity government should be supported so that it can get out of the difficulties that face Zimbabwe … We plead with the countries […]
Nigeria is set for what may well be one of the most momentous years in its history. Even as Acting President Goodluck Jonathan promises that the country’s 2011 elections will be free and fair his own status continues to be riddled with question marks. The reality is that it seems clear that President Umaru Yar’Adua’s […]
Is South Africa’s African National Congress in for an (another?) epochal political upheaval? Those observers who look at South Africa and only see a country with one-party political dominance miss the fact that within the ANC there is a vibrant, no-holds-barred, rough-and-tumble political culture in which disagreement appears to be the default setting. The South […]
The clock continues to tick down toward the opening game of the World Cup, which will pit hosts Bafana Bafana against a Mexican team that has to wonder about its bad luck in drawing the hosts for what will be an emotion-laden first game. There are fewer than a hundred days remaining before the world […]
President Jacob Zuma hopes South Africa will build on the momentum gained from South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup. This might all come across as empty political rhetoric, the kind of thing we expect a politician and booster to say. But his assertion gains credence with the revelation that the country has “put aside […]
In a post on the sloppiness of America’s dealings with Somalia, Matthew Yglesias makes a salient point: One of the most pernicious aspects of the “war on terror” theoretical construct is that it’s created strong institutional and financial incentives for elements of the bureaucracy to characterize whatever it is they do as somehow really part […]
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I do not have much regard for Jamie Kirchick as a commentator on African Affairs. His Africa resume is so thin you could not hang a hat from it. But he has positioned himself well, especially at The New Republic, where he is assistant editor, by writing the occasional article on Zimbabwe or South Africa […]
I’m off for a boys’ ski weekend in Utah and so will not be back to posting until Tuesday or Wednesday. I’m leaving you with some links and brief commentary to start your weekend off right! Fans of Bafana Bafana probably should not get their hopes up that Benni McCarthy is going to step forward […]
Although I am looking forward to almost every element of this winter’s World Cup in South Africa there are two issues I am dreading. As someone who travels to the country annually, I am not especially excited about being confused with the typical tourist. I am even less excited about the prospect of everything being […]
