Zimbabwe Deal
12 September 2008 Zimbabwe Deal By Gwynne Dyer “We have a deal,” said Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on Thursday. President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled...
View ArticleFarewell Mbeki
23 September 2008 Farewell Mbeki By Gwynne Dyer It was widely believed of South Africa’s outgoing president, Thabo Mbeki, that the only time when he wasn’t plotting was when he was asleep. More than...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Tsvangirai’s Choice
12 February 2009 Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai’s Choice By Gwynne Dyer On 11 February, in Harare, Morgan Tsvangirai drank the poisoned chalice, knowing that it was poisoned. He was sworn in as prime minister of...
View ArticleDespite Zuma
8 April 2009 Despite Zuma By Gwynne Dyer In less than two weeks (22 April), Jacob Zuma will be elected as South Africa’s new president. Many people see this as the beginning of the end for South...
View ArticleSouth Africa at 20
15 February 2010 South Africa at 20 by Gwynne Dyer On the 20th anniversary of the day in February 1990 when the end of South Africa’s apartheid system was announced the former President F.W. de Klerk...
View ArticleBurma: Not A “Mandela Moment”
14 November 2010 Burma: Not A “Mandela Moment” By Gwynne Dyer People love historical analogies, so it’s easy to think of Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest on Saturday as Burma’s “Mandela...
View ArticleTwenty-Five Years of Non-Violent Revolution
12 June 2011 Twenty-Five Years of Non-Violent Revolution By Gwynne Dyer The “Prague Spring” of 1968 was a gallant attempt at a non-violent democratic revolution, but it was crushed by Soviet tanks....
View ArticleSouth Africa: Malema’s Game
14 August 2011 South Africa: Malema’s Game By Gwynne Dyer Julius Malema did something unusual on Saturday. The leader of the Youth League of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC)...
View ArticleThe African National Congress at 100
5 January 2012 The African National Congress at 100 By Gwynne Dyer “It’s a bittersweet victory,” said William Gumede, a distinguished South African academic, about the hundredth anniversary of the...
View ArticleSouth Africa: The Politics of Massacre
20 August 2012 South Africa: The Politics of Massacre By Gwynne Dyer Forty-eight hours after South African police killed 34 striking miners last Thursday (16 August), Julius Malema showed up at the...
View ArticleAn African Iceberg?
22 May 2013 An African Iceberg? By Gwynne Dyer Keeping a file of random clippings is an old-fashioned thing to do, but sometimes it offers you unexpected connections. Sometimes it’s a connection that...
View ArticleMandela’s Legacy
13 June 2013 Mandela’s Legacy By Gwynne Dyer As I write this Nelson Mandela is still with us. He may even still be living at the end of this year. But this is his fourth hospitalisation in six months,...
View ArticleRape is an African Problem
15 September 2013 Rape is an African Problem By Gwynne Dyer Last May, with considerable trepidation, I wrote an article about what seemed to be extraordinarily high rates of rape in Africa. The...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: Peace at Last
17 December 2013 Nelson Mandela: Peace at Last By Gwynne Dyer The Catholic Church consecrates saints with less pomp and sentimentality than was lavished on Nelson Mandela during the week-long media...
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