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  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
    ObituarySport
    Chester Williams, rugby player, 1970-2019

    Springbok who changed the way South Africa nation saw the game

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
    The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
    A speech designed for reconciliation

    Nelson Mandela’s inauguration address was concise and concentrated in its rhetorical charge

  • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
    US foreign policy
    Trump’s deal must focus on Palestinian rights

    Americans should know that a people deprived of liberty will never be pacified

  • Friday, 6 July, 2018
    World
    Auction of night in Nelson Mandela’s cell sparks fury

    Charity stunt aimed at corporate chiefs leads to debate on attitudes to apartheid past

  • Thursday, 5 April, 2018
    World
    Former Brazil president Lula to start prison term, court rules
  • Monday, 2 April, 2018
    Obituary
    Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, anti-apartheid leader, 1936-2018

    Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife came to symbolise black anger against post-apartheid settlement

  • Monday, 2 April, 2018
    Visual journalism
    Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: in pictures

    Moments in the life of a leader of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle and former wife of Nelson Mandela

  • Monday, 2 April, 2018
    World
    Anti-apartheid leader Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies

    Ex-wife of Nelson Mandela will leave a complex legacy in South Africa

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2018
    Ann Olivarius
    Rhodes will gaze down at another kind of scholar

    Global scholarships open to everyone are a century in the making

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  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2018
    Barney Mthombothi
    South Africans pin their hopes on Ramaphosa

    The ANC leader is probably better prepared to be president than any of his predecessors

  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    Obituary
    Hugh Masekela, 1939-2018, musician and activist

    He bore witness to black South Africans’ struggle against white minority rule

  • Saturday, 16 December, 2017
    AnalysisAfrican politics
    Veterans face off in ANC leadership fight in S Africa

    Dlamini-Zuma and Ramaphosa seek to become head of the party they have long served

  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2017
    David Pilling
    How Ramaphosa can still save the ANC

    The party that once inspired the world with its vision of the future has fallen far

  • Thursday, 7 December, 2017
    Front page
    Glencore appoints second woman to board
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2017
    African politics
    Voting begins in Kenya for rerun of presidential election
  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2017
    Obituary
    Ahmed Kathrada, ANC stalwart: 1929-2017

    Anti-apartheid activist was jailed on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2017
    Populism
    Uncertain times call for moral leadership

    It is time to reassert our values of decent treatment for all

  • Thursday, 1 September, 2016
    ReviewArts
    Mandela Trilogy, Royal Festival Hall, London — ‘Cartoonish’

    A musical-cum-opera about the South African leader that goes only skin deep

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2016
    Barney Mthombothi
    Black South Africans freed from the past

    Supporters voted for ANC out of loyalty but their patience has worn thin, writes Barney Mthombothi

  • Monday, 8 August, 2016
    Geopolitics
    The global democratic recession

    Democracy is in retreat around the world — for now

  • Friday, 5 August, 2016
    David Pilling
    ANC mood darkens as Zuma star fades

    Collapse in support closely tracks president’s party leadership since 2007

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    Andrew Hill
    Leaders to navigate the Brexit crisis

    Leadership experts offer examples from politics and history of the figures best equipped to cope

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    UK politics & policy
    Gordon Brown quotes JFK as he throws weight behind Remain camp
  • Thursday, 18 February, 2016
    John Gapper
    A requiem for Anglo American

    A corporate culture skilled at dominating apartheid nation was outmatched by global capital markets

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2016
    David Pilling
    Even good leaders must know when to quit

    Holding on means hollowing out the institutions on which the future must be built

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