The brother of former president Thabo Mbeki said the power of the ruling middle class must be diluted by the poor, the ...

When Jacob Zuma replaced Thabo Mbeki as President of South Africa in 2009, 80% of South Africans had confidence in him. He ...

Cape Town’s Bo-Kaap and its City Bowl are home to the oldest mosques in the country and, well, rampant Islamophobia. Notions of exceptionalism (and indeed of exclusivity) are precisely what is driving ...

Both Chris Hani and Steve Biko echoed Frantz Fanon’s warning that unless the fight against oppression is a fundamental one, decolonisation will just mean ‘the transfer into native hands of those ...

The corporate takeover of South African universities is the living legacy of Cecil John Rhodes, the mining magnate/politician. This ought to be a prime focus of students who describe themselves as ...

A tense meeting in May between US President Donald Trump and South Africa’s leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, was overshadowed by ...

The noise around Malema’s ‘genocidal’ chant drowns out the real issue: unhealed colonial trauma and economic injustice.

US President Donald Trump says a genocide is taking place in South Africa, a claim a judge dismissed as "imaginary".

The judiciary is a no-go area. After all, conventional wisdom dictates that judges are paragons of virtue. They cannot be ...

The local consensus is that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House was a great triumph. Despite the overwhelming agreement, it’s mistaken.

He may have survived a bruising encounter with Donald Trump, but the veteran ANC politician is facing forbidding challenges ...