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Jonny Steinberg

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Jonny Steinberg


Biography

Jonny Steinberg went to school in Gauteng and has a doctorate in political theory from Oxford. He is a researcher and the author of several books of non-fiction, the most recent being "Little Liberia: An African Oddyssey in New York"


Latest Columns

We'll reap whirlwind

Politicians will live to regret whipping up 'pretend insurgencies' as a way of masking their own problems

Complicated sex

Debacle deepens Zuma's younger supporters' sense of being under attack

ANC has turned

The police may be poised to become the valve that releases this country's excrement into the political process

Feudal force fields contrast with stark power lines

Which feels worse: the harried power of wealthy South Africans, or rich Ethiopians' cheery blindness to poverty?

A month of infamy

The xenophobic attacks of May 2008 had a special impact on paler minorities

Loyal opposition

Even when people protest against the way the ANC runs South Africa, they do not contest its sole right to do so

Dramas in the ANC

I RECENTLY went on an imaginary voyage to a desert island where I came across a South African who had been stranded since 1980.

Crossed wires in SA

Apartheid's sorry tangle finds a successor in complicated, race-based mistrust

White arrogance undermines black opposition

Nostalgia for National Party rule is not only wrong-headed, it endangers SA's future

Bad old policing habits die hard in the new SA

Cops still treat young black men like farm animals on Friday night 'revenge' patrols

Not the sharpest stick with which to prod the ANC

Whites build and blacks destroy? This false construct should be knocked down

Wage subsidy won't

Young South Africans and employers' love-hate relationship unlikely to change because of labour market reforms

Bring these angels of

Forget the 'golden age' - we have many useful things to learn from the flawed legends who led South Africa to freedom

Even if Malema goes, freedom fantasy will play on

JULIUS Malema is finally being buried. That is the word doing the rounds. His political grave may be taking a while to dig, we are told, but it is almost six feet deep now. Commentators are already minimising what he has meant to us; some speak of him as a bad dream from which we are waking.

Malema's theory of white power caches resounds

THERE is a long-standing debate among pundits and commentators about Julius Malema. Is he the creation of elites, and thus a figure with little resonance among the young and the poor? Or are his intemperance, his anger and his racism embodiments of popular sentiment?

Welfare is defining those once made proud by work

IN the mid-1990s, the University of the Witwatersrand anthropologist Hylton White spent two years in a settlement in the former KwaZulu.

Funeral march of a man who can't step up to the job

WHENEVER a South African police officer is murdered, General Bheki Cele puts on his ceremonial gear and gives the fallen one a soldier's burial.

Tottering Western idols only confirm African suspicions

WHY did the News of the World scandal have us chained to our television screens? For one simple reason: when the authority of venerable institutions crumbles before our eyes, we keep watching. Scotland Yard, among the most self-assured police organisations of the Old World, is revealed to be in cahoots with tabloid reporters. Westminster's entire political class is caught turning a blind eye to serial crimes because that is how one acquires and keeps power.

Hearing echoes of the old youth gangs in today's league

IN whose footsteps is the ANC Youth League following? What is its pedigree? The answer is: not the youth league of the '40s, led by Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo. That organisation bears little resemblance to the one that held its congress at Gallagher Estate this week.

The passing of a generation that is our fountainhead

IHAVE been struck by the depth of feeling with which South Africa greeted Albertina Sisulu's death. Her name had not passed anybody's lips in my presence in many months. It is quite possible that those I come across in my daily life had not thought of her in several years.

World Cup meant different things to South Africans

Jonny Steinberg: This time last year, we South Africans were pretty darned happy. Whether we lived in mansions or shacks, we were hosting the World Cup, and it was making us feel light-headed and goofy.