At 71, RW Johnson cares less what cages he rattles. The Rhodes Scholar, historian and journalist, tells Andrew Donaldson why time is running out for SA.
SA witnessed an example of how dramatically power is shifting when a small group of students forced UCT’s council to remove a statue of Cecil John Rhodes.
Joice Mujuru, ousted as Zimbabwe’s vice president in December, said she’s kept silent out of respect for the country’s founding president even after he branded her a witch and accused her of plotting to kill him.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who has just turned 91, said on Thursday that one of his secrets to a long life was “not filling my stomach.”
President Robert Mugabe’s government said on Monday it is going ahead with controversial plans to export live elephants despite resistance from animal rights groups.
During a sweetheart interview with deferential SABC, Jacob Zuma distanced himself from the Nkandla scandal, referring to The President in the third person.
Zim’s beleaguered Vice President Mujuru defended herself on Monday against allegations that she masterminded a plot to assassinate President Mugabe.
December 17, 2010
Money was the global story of the Noughties. Mostly about making it, no matter how rudely. Since the 2008 Crash it’s been all about losing it. First playing the victim and then joining any lynch mob chasing “those greedy bankers” whose RemCos, CDOs, LBOs and other anagrams done us all in.