The South African state must either impose itself on former President Jacob Zuma or give up building a nation for now. A history of compromise after compromise after compromise asks, no, demands another compromise. It came to be called the South African war because everybody was involved in the war. The first shots were fired by Sol Plaatje (1876 – 1932) with his book Native Life In South Africa (1916). The last leg of the third South African war entered the fray.

Source: The Guardian July 11, 2021 03:45 UTC