Published by The i paper (17th June, 2024) It is 30 years since the citizens of South Africa defied doom-mongers with a largely peaceful transition from apartheid to […]
Africa / Ethiopia / South Africa / Zimbabwe
Winds of change blowing across Africa
Published by The ipaper (19th February, 2018) Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma share some things in common. Both were key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle with the African […]
Africa / Environment / Policy / South Africa
Water wars as day zero looms
Published by Mail on Sunday (18th February, 2018) The vista could hardly be more barren or forbidding – a parched sandy landscape, baking beneath the afternoon sun, broken […]
Aid / Politics
Corrupt, ineffective and hypocritical: Britain should give less aid, not more
Published in The Independent (May 2nd, 2013) When Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, decided to give his family house in Nkandla a makeover, he did so […]