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Cecil John Rhodes

Focusing on our formal colonial past obscures the inconvenient present (Part 1)

South Africa

Focusing on our formal colonial past obscures the inconvenient present (Part 1)

By Jeff Rudin

Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford University

Maverick Life

Africa’s ‘sleeping’ language, |xam, has been written in stone at Oxford University

By Elleke Boehmer and Luan Staphorst

Exotic Sambar deer on Table Mountain: Do the research first, shoot later

South Africa

Exotic Sambar deer on Table Mountain: Do the research first, shoot later

By Nicoli Nattrass

Sydney Thomas Petersen — a special man from a special family who lived through a special time

Maverick Life

Sydney Thomas Petersen — a special man from a special family who lived through a special time

By Wilmot James

Rhodes and His Banker: Empire, Wealth and the Coming of Union

Africa

Rhodes and His Banker: Empire, Wealth and the Coming of Union

By Richard Steyn

Cecil Rhodes’ shackling of coloured and black voters cruelly distorted face of SA

South Africa

Cecil Rhodes’ shackling of coloured and black voters cruelly distorted face of SA

By Daniel de Kadt and Joachim Wehner

Cecil John Rhodes the racist is not guilty when it comes to today’s racial capitalism

Politics

Cecil John Rhodes the racist is not guilty when it comes to today’s racial capitalism

By Jeff Rudin

Cecil John Rhodes’ vision is alive on white-owned farms in South Africa

South Africa

Cecil John Rhodes’ vision is alive on white-owned farms in South Africa

By Yvonne Phyllis

Quite a lot that glisters actually is gold. Just ask Gold Fields

Business Maverick

Quite a lot that glisters actually is gold. Just ask Gold Fields

By Tim Cohen

Mnangagwa’s oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes

Africa

Mnangagwa’s oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes

By Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team

Digging up the past in a pandemic: South African mining industry must learn from its mistakes

Business Maverick

Digging up the past in a pandemic: South African mining industry must learn from its mistakes

By Richard Cramer

South Africa: The upside-down world of racial capitalism and Black Lives Matter, Part 1

South Africa

South Africa: The upside-down world of racial capitalism and Black Lives Matter, Part 1

By Jeff Rudin