theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a… Professors for free speech as much as students for Palestine. Bravo the faculty who walked out and bravo the students at the late Edward Said's university.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… Well, during the struggle no one thought to trademark the MK name. And you couldn't register the name under Apartheid law anyway. But Zuma was a latecomer to the MK and was basically its brutal prison warden in Angola. He never fought.

Zambia seeks power imports for key mining sector reuters.com/business/energ… But from where will Zambia import power in a region that is so widely affected by drought? There isn't much to spare anywhere & what there is is in high demand from other countries.

Aviation Leaders Convene In Zambia. What's the Agenda? simpleflying.com/african-aviati… Many little airlines, just for the sake of flying a national flag, can't be easily made to fit into an overall regional or continental strategy. The old Zambia Airways still owes me money by the way.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/… If this is because the ZiG is a 'real' currency, does this mean that all value transacted on the stock market of Zimbabwe was a fiction? A case of the phantom economy?

The King Am I — MK’s incendiary manifesto manifests grinding contempt for SA’s democracy and Constitution dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0… Well, Zuma was never a natural democrat or given exceedingly to honesty. The tales former fellow inmates on Robben Island tell me can't be repeated.

10 years ago in Port Harcourt with the late former Irish PM John Bruton, former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, speaking to Nigerian Kings & Senators. We were basically encouraging President Goodluck Jonathan not to use the courts to prevent Buhari running for President.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr… No limit on presidential terms now. Perhaps this is the model Mnangagwa would like. A coup under constitutionalised dress. The ultimate cross-dressing.

South Africa is seeking potential minority investors and access to capital markets and loan financing for South African Airways bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Investors will be very cautious. SAA continues to promise a hiding to nothing. It has no actual firm plans.

SAfrica’s security forces once brutally entrenched apartheid. A rocky road to reform theconversation.com/south-africas-… via The Conversation Africa The trouble is that no matter how reformed, & even if now not corrupt, the army isn't actually that good. All its foreign deployments have been disastrous.

SAfrica has evaded US censure despite deepening relations with China & Russia bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics Skill involved in playing all sides. But no one is talking of any new non-alignment movement as, in fact, playing all sides now means deep relations with all sides

Media Advisory: US, Zambian Armies cohost weeklong Land Forces Summit in Livingstone army.mil/article/275462… Many army chiefs from across Africa will attend. Probably not those now forging links with Russia, and probably not Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe now a family State says Chamisa, taking aim at Mnangagwa 'dynasty' newzimbabwe.com/zimbabwe-is-no… Well, he's said something at last but this statement is barely coherent. What is this reference to 'diapers'? I'm not sure Ghana would feel flattered. No statement on the ZiG yet.

Zimbabwe expects IMF programme in Third Quarter after currency changes newzimbabwe.com/zimbabwe-expec… The IMF will want to delay as well. Both to see if the ZiG sustains value, but also to see if other fiscal policy is robust. No one wants to deal with Zimbabwe otherwise.

Dirty tricks - poster wars spark intimidation and sabotage allegations ahead of SA’s May 29 polls dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-0… Poster wars and sabotage of rival posters. But that's so old fashioned. Wait till we get to deep fakes and online sabotage.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr… The Turkish President has been for some time trying to insert himself as a broker in the Gaza conflict. Unsuccessfully. But his call for Palestinian unity is naive. Fatah & Hamas hate each other as much as they hate the Israeli invasion.

theatlasnews.co/latest/2024/04… Basically the M23 defeated the Sth African forces. Now Ramaphosa finally proposes the possibility of negotiations with them. Perhaps he realises that means negotiations with their sponsor, President Kagame. This is a regional war into which SA blundered.

Zando launches international unit to counter Shein and Temu in South Africa reuters.com/business/retai… These slash-price Chinese online retailers cause concern in the UK too, but they're inescapable. I furnished my new office with Temu rugs. Cheap, colourful, durable- all synthetic.