“Nobody owes you anything. Build your own wealth.” Every South African debate about race, wealth and opportunity eventually arrives at that sentence. There is truth in it.There is also a dangerous omission. The argument assumes everyone began from roughly the…

At least 74 Zimbabweans fled Mossel Bay in early June following the killing of foreign nationals. One of them told us his story. By May, Langton Gumira liked his life – but it hadn’t always been that way. He and…