Jonny Steinberg teaches African studies at Oxford University and writes a regular column for Business Day and BusinessLIVE.

JONNY STEINBERG | What might have been?

In the early 1970s, when Winnie Mandela was banned, few people outside South Africa had heard of her. Those who followed the country’s politics ...

JONNY STEINBERG | Why electoral reform doesn’t get my vote

Ditch proportional representation and what has happened in Eldorado Park could well occur on a national scale

JONNY STEINBERG | The ANC’s nest is well-feathered in rural SA

The relationship between geographically uneven growth and parties in SA has entrenched patronage politics

JONNY STEINBERG | Don’t be smug, Thabo. You are partly to blame for the mess ...

Mbeki could have paved the way for a tolerable future, but he pitted the ANC against itself in pursuit of control