R. W. Johnson
A Grim Prospect For South Africa’s Jews
Antisemitism is on the rise in South Africa and the ANC have done much to encourage it
Can Europe’s Jews Feel Safe Alongside Muslims?
The Jewish exodus from France shows that Islam’s rapid growth has caused a crisis for the Continent’s oldest minority. Bromides won’t do any more
We Owe Tom Sharpe a Thousand Laughs
A Nazi Unitarian father, expulsion from South Africa and a ménage à trois: the author of ‘Porterhouse Blue’ lived a complicated existence
The Silencing of South Africa’s Greatest Cricket Side
Most of the world-beating cricket team of the 1970s were anti-apartheid. Now they are shut out from the national game
Hullabaloo in the Great Karoo
South Africa’s desert is a battleground between astronomers and gas companies
Secret Deal With South Africa’s Stalinists
Britain quietly allowed anti-apartheid exiles to run guerrilla operations from London as long as they stayed off the streets
Johannesburg: Hard Pressed
‘I would like to think that all the politically correct Brits who lined up to condemn me for “juxtapositional racism” might say a word or two about the extinction of media freedom in a major Commonwealth country, but I am not holding my breath’
Richard Goldstone
The South African judge’s Gaza report is just another example of his intensely political attitude to the law
South Africa: The ANC’S Health Lesson for Obama
Health care reform is one of the hardest things in politics. If Obama may be heading for defeat or a bloody draw, this is nothing compared to what awaits the ANC as it attempts to force through its National Health Insurance scheme.
Africa Has a Dream: Obama
The new president will be welcomed by most ordinary Africans, if not by their rulers
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts