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By Andrew Field Europe has become frightened of words. Not obscenity, incitement or threats, which the law knows how to deal with, but labels: racist, islamophobe, far right. They have…
By Andrew Field Ronald Lamola, South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, stood before the cameras in Pretoria and told the continent that South Africa cannot be a remedy…
By Andrew Field In November 2024, in the streets of Amsterdam, gangs of young men hunted Jewish football supporters through the city after dark. They called it a Jew hunt.…
By Andrew Field The new story of narcotics in southern Africa does not begin with a theory. It begins with seizures. In June 2026, Durban harbour again produced cocaine. One…
By Andrew Field South Africa was meant to be the beacon of hope for southern Africa. For centuries the region looked to it as the powerhouse, the state to be…
By Andrew Field Last year ‘radical’ Islam, the religion of peace, killed more people in the dry middle of Africa than anywhere else on Earth. The Global Terrorism Index published…
By Andrew Field Mozambique is beginning to resemble a managed emergency rather than a counter-insurgency. The distinction matters because counter-insurgencies are supposed to end. Managed emergencies become permanent systems. They…
Andrew Field | South of the African Equator | April 2026 Bertrand Russell, writing with characteristic precision about the dangers of Marxist political philosophy, once identified what he considered its…
By Andrew Field Zimbabwe’s currency looks calm on the surface, but beneath it, the currents of mistrust run deep. There is a tendency within government to treat the apparent stability…
By Andrew Field The Muzarabani gas discovery is being presented to Zimbabweans as a moment of arrival, a geological vindication that the country sits atop untapped energy wealth capable of…