Editor's note

South African broadcaster Redi Tlhabi has resurrected the story of a young woman who accused Jacob Zuma of rape. In a book just published the author recounts the life of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, who was known only as “Khwezi” during the rape trial in 2006. Her story has been told before. But, as Shireen Hassim writes, Tlhabi speaks to a South Africa that’s changed in the past decade. One notable difference is that the pact of complicity surrounding Zuma has been broken.

Fears that Lake Chad - an important water and hydroelectricity source for many countries in West, Central and even North Africa - was drying up, prompted an ambitious move to replenish it with water from the River Congo. But 30 years later, internal politics and disagreements still threaten the full take off and success of the project, explains Adegboyega Adeniran.

Charles Leonard

Arts & Culture Editor

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Supporters of President Jacob Zuma in full cry outside the court during his 2006 rape trial. EPA

Why, a decade on, a new book on Zuma's rape trial has finally hit home

Shireen Hassim, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa has changed since Jacob Zuma's 2006 rape trial. In recent years, a new and assertive feminist movement has emerged and attacks on the president have become common cause.

Environment + Energy

  • The attempt to replenish Lake Chad's water may fail again. Here's why

    Adegboyega Adeniran, Australian National University; Katherine Daniell, Australian National University

    The transnational project conceived 30 years ago to replenish the drying waters of Lake Chad finally seems poised to take off. But first, internal politics within member states must be overcome.

Politics + Society

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