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Warfare in a Box

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By Benjamin Fogel, Bongani Kona
| The Baffler Verified
Mercenaries have become an inescapable part of today’s landscape of conflict and disorder. Guns for hire now cover the globe. Rechristened outside of Ukraine as the Africa Corps after the demise of its director, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia’s Wagner Group has popped up everywhere in Africa, from Burkina Faso to the Central African Republic. Elsewhere on the continent, the United Arab Emirates has sent the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to secure access to gold mines in Sudan.
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Short.Sharp.Stories anthology, Power: interview with Werner Labuschagne, author of "The killer"

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By Bongani Kona
| litnet.co.za
Short.Sharp.Stories is a platform showcasing established and emerging South African short story writers. For the 2025 anthology, Power: Short stories that light the dark, writers imagined “power” in fictional terms – how it influences and affects us, including political and personal power, and the ever-present issues of loadshedding.
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The country between us: some notes on Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End

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By Bongani Kona
| Taylor & Francis Online
1. Notes from the dialysis ward I’d like to begin by sketching the circumstances in which Casey Golomski’s book found me, in November 2024. My 78-year-old mother, T_., is a longtime dialysis patient, and earlier that year, in February, a rival private hospital group acquired the company that operated the renal dialysis clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, where she received treatment.
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