When the Napoleonic era destabilized what is now Germany, the Von Landsberg family had to make a choice. Either stay and live with profound insecurity, or emigrate to the British controlled Cape…
In this episode of Arclight Strategic Insights, Andrew and Professor Anthony Turton unpack the history, ideology and evolution of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), one of the most important, and most…
This is the fourth conversation between Andrew Charter and Dr Anthony Turton. It’s where South Africa’s hydraulic mission collides with insurgency, intelligence operations, regional destabilisation,…
This is the fifth ARCLIGHT conversation between Andrew Charter and Dr Anthony Turton — and the first in what will become a new series examining the question that may be most consequential to…
In 1981, a Soviet KGB officer operating under deep cover was arrested in South Africa. Kozlov was an “illegal” — a long-term infiltrator, not an embassy officer under diplomatic cover.South Africa had…
Eutectic freeze crystallisation pilot plant, Tweefontein, near Ogies. Nanodyn Group.Ninety-eight per cent. That’s how much of South Africa’s available water had been allocated by 2003. Not estimated.…
The dams didn’t just hold water. They held the country together.This is the second episode of the conversation between Andrew Charter and Dr Anthony Turton — continuing the story of how South Africa…
This is the first episode of a conversation between Andrew Charter and Dr Anthony Turton, water security expert and former NIS operative.The story begins not with apartheid, not with the mines, but…
