Apologies all round. In this post stretching too far for a Barack Obama reference we stated that Paul Dorries, second divorced husband of inveterate fibber MP and Spectator "Reader's Representative" Nadine Dorries, was Southern Africa born. Wrong. In fact further research shows he is Liverpool-born, knew Nads before her first marriage, and was a Gold Digger or Diamond Digger or the like in Za...

Eugene Terreblanche was a nasty thug. He was determined to keep South Africa a white supremacist state at all costs. He didn’t give a jot for anyone who wasn’t white, but his murder raises concerns about the future of South Africa. Is is estimated more than 3000 white farmers have been killed since the end of apartheid in 1994. South Africa’s political leadership has failed to ad...

FACT: Nadine Dorries was using facilities paid for by the taxpayer for campaigning purposes... Bloggerheads.com - Nadine Dorries and the minor matter of misappropriation Liberal Conspiracy - The case against Nadine Dorries MP (pt 1) FACT: Nadine Dorries was found...

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa's long-dominant governing party was racing against itself Friday, leaving its opponents far behind and closing in on its goal of doing as well or better than in the last elections....

Labour's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband MP, speaks to the University of South Africa. Check against delivery. This is my first visit to South Africa as Foreign Secretary and I’m delighted to be here at the University of South Africa. The...

So David Cameron was another one who took the Strategy Network International shilling, was he? SNI was a front organisation for the apartheid regime in South Africa, supported by various mining, finance and defence interests in Southern Africa and specialised in inviting MPs and others on all-first-class expenses paid trips to the tribal homelands, where then South African government saw fit to du...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South Africa's parliament elected Jacob Zuma as president Wednesday, celebrating the astonishing rise of a self-educated teenage goatherd who transformed himself into the charismatic leader of Africa's economic powerhouse....

The third game of the series between Alex and me, then (its rules explained here), and it's my turn with choice of country and first player. Time for the South African contest. Here are our two teams in the order...

It's a very obvious overstatement to say that South Africa is becoming more like its delinquent neighbor, Zimbabwe. Nonetheless, an incident reported in South Africa's Business Today gave reason for the comparison: Last weekend, a mob overran a fruit and sugar cane farm, allegedly in frustration for the slow pace of long-promised land reform. It sparked memories of the public outcry in Z...

ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images If you were investing in South Africa's promising economy, what is the last thing you'd like to see?  Well, there's no need for hypotheticals. You could have just watched the news last night. The resignation of President Thabo Mbeki, who for all his flaws oversaw fantastic economic growth, has sent shivers up investors' spines. South Africa i...