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Leadership: Bonang Mohale is many things, yet, beyond the impressive titles and achievements lies something far more important: a deep and abiding love for people. Photo: TBCSA / Thabang Radebe

You have to love your people to lead them

Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a…

Barbie Kyagulanyi’s ordeal reveals how love can become a powerful, non-violent force driving resistance, courage and conviction in Uganda’s struggle for meaningful democracy and good governance

Barbie Kyagulanyi Ordeal: How love is animating the struggle for meaningful democracy and good Governance

Barbie Kyagulanyi’s ordeal reveals how love can become a powerful, non-violent force driving resistance, courage and conviction in Uganda’s struggle for meaningful democracy and…

Son of the soil: American civils rights leader Jesse Jackson with Oliver Tambo (left) and Trevor Huddleston
(right) in London during the Anti-Apartheid demonstrations in the 1980s. Photo: South African History Online

Africa mourns Jesse Jackson, a global change agent

A gregarious man with a mission, a complex personality, hard-nosed politician, he strode from the pulpits of politics to the precipice of the Oval Office, paving the way along…

Will he? Will he not? Soccer boss Dr Patrice Motsepe is touted as the man to save the ANC, amid concerns about the party’s declining popularity and challenges facing the Cyril
Ramaphosa administration.

Motsepe, the Crown Prince?

Supporters argue that Motsepe possesses the skills and experience to lead the ANC and South Africa. His potential presidency is expected to strengthen relations with the United…

Protestors raise placards in front of Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park.  (Chika Oduah)

America’s ‘Black Mecca’ rallies against racist police brutality

Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US

American civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, who popularised the slogan ‘Black Power’, was influenced by Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah and Guinea’s Ahmed Sékou Touré. (Dwayne Bey/Getty Images)

1968, the year that Africa shaped the US

Black Power and pan-Africanism became a force that had a powerful effect on the continent itself

Voice of reason: Raoul Peck’s documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ is a portrait of author James Baldwin and his place in race politics and resistance in the turbulent 1960s in the US.

Black, white and Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro review

Put together from notes, video clips and interviews, the new film narrates America and its dynamics

Voice of reason: Raoul Peck’s documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ is a portrait of author James Baldwin and his place in race politics and resistance in the turbulent 1960s in the US. (Ralph Gatti, AFP)

Baldwin a witness to history

Put together from notes, video clips and interviews, the new film narrates America and its dynamics

More needs to be done to fulfil Luther King’s dream, says Obama

US President Barack Obama has called on Americans to further Martin Luther King Jr’s dream on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

Martin Luther King III (centre) locks arms with Reverend Wendell Anthony (center left) and Reverend Al Sharpton (center right) as they march during the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Freedom Walk in Detroit. (AFP)

Celebrations commemorate Martin Luther King Jr’s historic speech

Marches, speeches and global bell-ringing are set to mark the 50th anniversary this month of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr’s "I Have a Dream" speech.

King still roils US politics 40 years after death

Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr was shot to death, the civil rights leader is still roiling American politics. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and…

Anti-apartheid campaigner rejects SA award

A New Zealand anti-apartheid campaigner has rejected a nomination for a South African award, saying he is dismayed over conditions in the country. John Minto was the national…

Hollywood writers’ strike clouds Oscars

In the 80 years since the first Oscars were handed out, it has taken a war or a flood or an assassination to delay the celebration surrounding the film industry’s highest…

Kerry snubs Edwards by backing Obama

John Kerry, the senator who ran against George Bush in 2004, endorsed Barack Obama yesterday in a slap in the face to Hillary Clinton and to John Edwards, his vice-presidential…