Zimbabwe’s Lithium Paradox: How an Export Ban Strengthened Foreign Control
By Andrew Field Lithium was once an afterthought; now it is the mineral that exposes Zimbabwe’s paradox of sovereignty and dependency. George Nolan’s discovery at Bikita in the early 1950s…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, At last, things are happening. A top-shot ANC cadre fingered at the Zondo Commission received a proper jail sentence. Vincent Smith, once a powerful MP and…
The Week That Was
Hello again Geordin Hill-Lewis of Cape Town and Solly Msimanga of Johannesburg are the two leading figures in the race for the leadership of the DA. The election will be…
From Vichy to Westminster: The Danger of Cowardice in Government
By Andrew Field The Britain of Keir Starmer increasingly resembles a nation managed not by statesmen but by enemy collaborators with public opinion, accountants of caution who mistake cowardice for…
The Congo, The Colonials, And The Lies.
Hannes Wessels, I must confess I have been unable to stop chuckling about the furore caused by recent pronouncements made by UK billionaire businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe. There was instant…
The Seven Year Itch: Parliament, Power and the Road to 2030
By Andrew Field Zimbabwe is once again in the midst of constitutional surgery. Cabinet has approved a package of amendments that would alter the way executive power is acquired and…
A Watchdog in Darkness: The Baden-Clay Case and Queensland’s Debt to Justice
By Will Keys In every functioning democracy there is an expectation—quiet, steady, almost instinctive—that public watchdogs operate above fear, favour, and fashion. Their legitimacy does not come from popularity but…
Epstein Affair: From Predator to Political Myth
By Andrew Field The Jeffrey Epstein affair has really become a theatre of excess, marked by speculation, seldom certainty, but much moral posturing in excess measure. It is no longer…
Freedom Was the Lie That Worked
By Andrew Field Freedom is one of the most overworked words in southern African political life. It is invoked with solemnity, defended with anger, and celebrated with gluttonous ritual by…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, There have been severe weather events for weeks in the northern provinces and particularly in Limpopo. It was so bad that the Kruger National Park was…