Angola held its first elections in 16 years on Friday.  During the time I was there there were constant rallies (mostly supporting the main party and forgone concluded victor, the MPLA) and general chaos, with everything from random scooter parades of teenagers in party t-shirts waving flags to a quad-bike rally on the beach on […]

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No, it’s not apartheid or even the current riots.  It’s the government.
If you want to understand South Africa, and in much of what plagues all of Africa - read this editorial on the criminal incompetence of Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s current president.
You’ll begin to understand why Robert Guest, the Africa editor for the Economist and […]

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If you have been following the news (or picked up Tuesday’s NY Times - see here for the front-page article - if you read anything it should be that or this or this), you’ve seen the anti-immigrant riots in the Johannesburg townships. The mass influx of Zimbabwean refugees, combined with general unrest over immigration […]

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