Jacob Zuma and Donald Trump have been compared to one another by many whose blogs get more readership than mine: Trevor Noah, for one.
The course Zuma’s life is taking following his resignation in disgrace I think is near exactly what will happen to Trump in America.
South Africans suffered Jacob Zuma as president for nine years, a year less than the full two terms. No one thought he’d make it into the second term… (So, like here?) He resigned in disgrace to avoid what would have been South African impeachment. The country rocked in joy, but four months later the smiles are wearing thin. Zuma’s damage was more than any imagined, and the country is starting to scream pain.
Wonder if we’re in a new cold war? Take a look at how Africa responded to the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem yesterday.
Fear, uncertainty and a growing distrust of America spread across sub-Saharan Africa last night as it grew more and more evident how crippled a number of African countries might become as a result of Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Dear.
How can you own the most of something extremely precious to the world and yet grow sick and poor because of it? That’s the story of South African gold.
Man or Woman? South Africa’s Caster Semenya was the world’s best, all-time middle-distance woman runner… until last week when global sports 
The recent, great deaths of two public ladies tells us something very important about our time. In these terrible moments of human history, death attracts more civility than life.
South Africa is a hiker’s paradise. Today I hiked the Highmoor Drakensberg Park for almost the entire morning, from sunrise to just before noon. I was the only hiker here at the top of the little Berg.
The river just below my front patio roars with unusually strong, late summer rains. Tons of fresh sparkling water crashes onto the ancient dolomite boulders that haven’t moved since the beginning of time. The gushing is so loud I can’t hear her when she arrives.
No one likes a braggart, a swashbuckler, a hotshot. But would you prefer instead a bootlicker, someone whose meekness is frighteningly unreal?
The #NeverAgainMSD may be the first public movement to actually tackle our paralyzed government while confronting and beating such behemoths as the NRA. We should have known. Remember South Africa.
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Watch South Africa, Americans!
Imagine Ryan voting to impeach Trump and Pelosi voting not to: American political strategists better closely follow what’s happening right now in South Africa.
What do the leaders of Zimbabwe, South Africa and the U.S. have in common?
Today cast members of South Africa’s entry for the 2018 Oscars best foreign film of the year