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The attempted coup in America

Of all the disturbing elements of yesterday's attempted coup, perhaps the most distressing is how utterly unsurprising and predictable it was. “This is not who we are,” tweeted U.S Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) Donald Trump, Jr., the…

What a Biden win would mean to the world

On the US election day in 2016 I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, attending the African Investigative Journalism Conference hosted by WITS University. As can be remembered, it was a momentous election with high stakes. A politically…

Trump’s attempted coup

We all knew it was coming, and now it is here. An attempted coup. There is no other way to describe what President Donald Trump did in the wee hours of the morning. Standing in the East Room of the White House, the room where…