Despite recent conciliatory gestures and very diplomatic wording from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Democratic Alliance and even civil rights organisations, the rift between Pretoria ...

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...