In his majestic history of the ANC, The Founders, the historian André Odendaal writes of the party founders: “The early ...

President Donald Trump’s promotion of a erroneous narrative of white farmers being “killed and slaughtered” in a genocide in ...

As South Africa moves toward the 2026 elections, its largest megacities are emerging as key battlegrounds, with urban ...

The South African government briefly held, then released, two US government employees on assignment in South Africa as part of the Trump administration’s bid to admit Afrikaners to the United States, ...

In 2025, John Matisonn’s reporting for BizNews delivered some of the year’s sharpest political insights—from shifting party ...

There is a peculiar malaise gnawing at the heart of South African democracy. It is not the overt corruption or the brazen incompetence that so often dominate headlines, but something more insidious, ...

Colluding with high-level crime syndicates, disbanding the political killings task force to protect the powerful, and the implosion of the police’s crime intelligence unit under his watch. These are ...

Security is expected to be tight when (now-retired) acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s commission of inquiry calls its first witness this week: KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner ...

Amanda Gouws receives funding from the National Research Foundation through her SARChI Chair in Gender Politics. Joseph Ayodele Kupolusi receives funding from the National Research Foundation through ...