I defy anyone to dare to predict the results of South Africa’s election, but one thing seems clear, Jacob Zuma’s pop-up MK party has the best T-shirts…and of course the best tunes…..

This is incredible. World Bank comparison of how much a worker making $1,000 in Soweto keeps after taxes and transport costs vs a similar worker in Vietnam.

A damning indictment of both apartheid's spatial legacy and subsequent failures to expand public transport.

It asks THE question animating South Africa ahead of its biggest election since that late April day in 1994 when giants seemed to walk the earth…

30 years ago I followed Jacob Zuma in what is now KwaZulu-Natal on his vital peace drive - now I’m heading back to SA for a rather different story…., as brilliantly told here by ⁦Monica Mark⁩ the new ⁦Financial Times⁩ correspondent

30 years ago I followed Jacob Zuma on his peace drive in what’s now KwaZulu-Natal - now I’m heading back to SA for a very different story, as brilliantly told here by ⁦Monica Mark⁩ the new ⁦Financial Times⁩ SA corr

Tim Harford Lilah Raptopoulos Thank you!

We asked him after reading his essay reflecting on 30 years since the Rwandan genocide, which is here. Thank you Alec for humoring blunt questions like “did you ever feel despair?” A lot of wisdom in this episode.

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Today on Life and Art podcast, from FT Weekend, our foreign editor Alec Russell gives us perspective on processing the news. He’s reported on some of the worst moments in history. It can feel like one of those now. Should we compare? And where does he find hope?

Listen: link.chtbl.com/lifeandart

Why haven't more European governments thought creatively about ammunition and weapons for Ukraine, as has the Czech government? This is all agonisingly late ft.com/content/a315de… via @ft

Spoiler: Nothing's left. This is the horror and devastation that Russia's army brings wherever it goes. Add Robotyne to the growing list of Ukrainian cities, towns and villages that have been wiped from the map by Russian bombs.

Lionel Barber Anne Applebaum alan rusbridger If you think ukraine is forgotten what abt Afghanistan and Sudan?

Chilling insight into the future of war - John Thornhill mustread on Gaza and the age of targeting by algorithm, and the huge knock-on moral ramifications ft.com/content/f6c1b6… via @ft

A nightmare for Ukraine. Politicians now fearing a fresh civilian exodus cd be inevitable in the autumn for lack of heating in homes - and all for a lack of air defences which the West could easily supply ft.com/content/e6a88a… via @ft

Must read 2 of the week - investigation into Europe’s move to outsource the policing of its borders to authoritarian regimes, and the consequences
Excellent reporting Laura Dubois Adam Samson
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Your 1 great piece of journalism for the week - the inside story of the migrant superhighway thru Panama that cd sway the US election & is shuttling more and more from China and not just Lat Am -
Michael Stott
Lucy Rodgers Sam Joiner
US election ig.ft.com/darien-gap/ via @ft

“The 2024 Trump campaign is unlike any other. Money comes in to send him to the White House. But just as quickly, some goes straight out to protect him from jail.” Trump’s dash for cash - mustread on his money worries

One of the lessons from Rwanda’s genocide is how hard it is for international justice to convict people of genocide - and probably rightly so at a time when the term is increasingly used. Thank you Chris Stephen and Philippe Sands for your guidance and thoughts on all this

30 years on from the worst genocide since the Holocaust - via the nightmare of “Room 28”, I reflect on the west’s failure to live up to its pledges to “protect”, the cost of the new stable Rwanda and the fraught quest for justice for genocide
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London, on 8 April, Alec Russell & I will be speaking about Moldova's Russian occupied territory of Transnistria, its history & recent developments since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We'll be joined by Tiraspol-born Larisa Kalik from Kyiv

Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/transnistria…

Spot on. Great country. Unbelievable story....