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Anthony Egan, S.J., contributes from Johannesburg.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.

Persisting low-level to acute crises throughout southern Africa may make 2017 a year to remember with regret.

South African President Jacob Zuma is seen in Cape Town, South Africa, Feb. 12, 2015. (CNS photo/Pool via EPA)
Politics & SocietySigns Of the Times
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Chaos and intransigence in the universities is matched by absurd criminal charges against a minister of finance who may only be doing his job too well.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
The decision by South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority to charge Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan and two associates with fraud is significant to say the least.
Pope Francis talks with Congolese President Joseph Kabila during a private audience at the Vatican Sept. 26. (CNS photo/Andrew Medichini, pool via Reuters)
Dispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
African Jesuits vow to help create a new generation of leaders for the continent.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan (Flickr/GovernmentZA)
Signs Of the Times
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Just when we thought that the Hawks (the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) had finally got their claws out of South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, they’re back! Conveniently waiting until after the local elections, they have once again subpoenaed Gordhan regarding
Pravin Gordhan at the World Economic Forum in 2012
Dispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
President Jacob Zuma has insisted that he fully supports his minister of finance but claims he can do nothing to stop the investigation.
Protesters interrupt South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, as he delivers a speech at the announcement of the results of the municipal elections in Pretoria, South Africa on Aug. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Herman Verwey)
Dispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
The local elections suggest an uneasy period for municipal governance in general and the A.N.C.’s leadership in the country.
Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, special adviser on health and HIV/AIDS for Caritas Internationalis, opens a panel discussion during a July 16 gathering before the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey)
Dispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
The 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) was held in Durban, South Africa on July 18-22.
Signs Of the Times
Anthony Egan, S.J.
Grahamstown, the small university city that hosts South Africa’s annual National Festival of the Arts each year, is historically a frontier town—the meeting place in the 19th century between the British Empire and the Xhosa nation, before the latter was annexed, creating the present-day
Dispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
On Tuesday morning the main national road was blocked by debris and tires, street disturbance similar to the kind of actions folks who are old enough will remember were common in streets leading into townships during the protests in the 1980s apartheid era.