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Seventy-one thousand people took to the streets on Thursday, in the third week of a movement about crumbling school buildings and teacher shortages. The government has promised "fully funded" answers by late October — and it has no obvious place to find the money. Legitimate Demands, Unaffordable Answers:...

Imagine a five-year-old walking into a classroom for the first time. At home, the child speaks Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kiswahili, Wolof or another African language. Then the teacher starts the lesson—in a completely different language. Well for millions of African children, this is everyday reality which raises a...

Torched cars, looted foreign-owned shops and a chased-out Somali shopkeeper. Pretoria says the violence was triggered by a deliberate lie about a July Constitutional Court judgment on asylum seekers — and that is a more interesting claim than it sounds.  A Narrow Judgment, a Wide Lie: South Africa's...