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Two people fall in love. Intensely. They exchange hundreds of passionate letters over more than 30 years. Create time to be with each other. They break the barriers of distance and busy schedules to meet. Undertake projects of professional mutual interest. Risk deep personal commitments.

You could be forgiven for thinking you were attending a side-event at Cape Town’s glitzy annual Mining Indaba in early February, when the opening panel of a civil society meeting repeatedly stressed how crucial mining is for Africa’s ‘development.’

Imagine the third largest employer in the nation's capital characterizing one of its African employees as an animal in an official report. His lawyer, Peter C. Hansen, demanded the "shameful" report that contained "the most galling... overtly racist...

Five decades ago on Feb. 24, 1966, a coup was carried out against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana’s independence movement and chief architect of the 20th century African revolutionary struggle.

I am now declaring my support for Bernie Sanders, the dark horse of the Democratic Party, to become the next President of the United States.

It is a refreshing act of moral self-affirmation for me to support a man who lives out his principles.

Ugandans go to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on February 18, 2016. This will be the sixth presidential election since Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) acceded to power on January 29, 1986.

In many developing countries, especially in Africa, there is a perception that new things do not need maintenance. This attitude is a major obstacle to the achievement of any kind of sustainability in development and the cause of failure in numerous African projects and programmes.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced that it would roll out Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) in preparation of the 2018 election. It is, however, important that we understand what BVR can and cannot do.

Hillary Clinton loves black people. And black people love Hillary—or so it seems. Black politicians have lined up in droves to endorse her, eager to prove their loyalty to the Clintons in the hopes that their faithfulness will be remembered and rewarded.

“South Africa can claim to have one of the world’s most redistributive public purses,” argues Johannesburg Business Day newspaper associate editor Hilary Joffe, drawing upo