Stagnation Malawi
By Andrew Field When the votes were counted, Malawi’s electorate chose the stable and well-trodden over the perhaps untested and experimental. This is a hallmark of southern African politics. Arthur…
Social Media Cancer
Andrew Field, Venturing a little from southern Africa, this blog discusses extremist political turmoil and division between left and right in the Western World. Moderate or centre-oriented politics seems to…
RAMAPHOSA and STARMER
Hannes Wessels, It was with a sense of almost total despair that I read recently of South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech when opening Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Show in Harare recently.…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, For me one of the main news stories of this week was about the recent poll substantiating last week’s DA poll, showing a dramatic loss of…