Ashwin Desai

South Africa’s own goal June 2010

As football fans worldwide turn their attention towards South Africa, Ashwin Desai and Patrick Bond look at what impact hosting the World Cup is having on the world's most unequal large country

South Africa’s faded rainbow May 2004

Despite the ANC's record landslide in April's South African general elections, there is growing domestic resistance to the party's lurch to the right.