South Africa: The President's Edifice Complex - Dreams of a Wakanda On the Highveld?

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The startling image of an entirely new, hi-tech city in the president's SONA speech piqued this author's attention -- and an exploration of the ideas behind such a dream.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

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