Jonny Steinberg

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Jonny Steinberg

Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa’s transition to democracy. A two-time winner of South Africa’s premier nonfiction award and an inaugural winner of the Donald Windham-Sandy M Campbell Literature Prize, Steinberg was professor of African Studies at Oxford University and currently teaches at Yale and at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) in Johannesburg.

Top image: Cyril Ramaphosa and Nelson Mandela at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. Picture: Graeme Williams/South Photographs.
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Nelson Mandela was a hard man who played a hard game. What if he was in Ramaphosa’s shoes?

If Mandela were president of a country facing a truly shocking crisis in the criminal justice system, what would he do?

  • Jonny Steinberg
2 min read

South Africa at 30: A tale of two countries

South Africa’s democratic history can be seen in two halves: 15 years of development, where life got demonstrably better for the majority of the population; 15 years of…

  • Jonny Steinberg
13 min read
Matteo Salvini

Populism: How SA can resist the global tide

In SA, Malema articulates the mass disenchantment better than most. But South Africans, by and large, aren’t likely to actually vote for him

  • Jonny Steinberg
20 min read