South Africa's inequality is a class issue masked by race and political infighting, distracting from pragmatic solutions and ...

President Ramaphosa's R700 million National Dialogue raises questions about accountability and genuine public engagement amid South Africa's ongoing crises. This analysis critiques the initiative as a ...

THE upheaval rocking the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party of former South African president, Jacob Zuma, is a case of chickens coming home to roost. The party ought to be utilising its status as the offici ...

Key topicsANC reversed poverty gains while China uplifted millions in 40 yearsEskom, Transnet, and corruption cited as ...

DA federal chair Helen Zille recently announced her intention to stand as a mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, Africa ...

Analyst 'Toks Oguntuga, in this piece, interprets Tinubu’s symbolic public rebuke of Sanwo-Olu and the quiet fracture within ...

This book is an elegy to a beloved political party and a failing, if not failed state. Mathews Phosa is devastating in his truthfulness, and stunning in his attempt to be generous to friend and foe ...

When Jacob Zuma replaced Thabo Mbeki as President of South Africa in 2009, 80% of South Africans had confidence in him. He had a confidence score of 258 overall and even among white South Africans JZ ...

South Africa’s economy is 37% smaller than it would have been had the country tracked its emerging-market peers and sustained annual growth of 4.5% since 2010.

South African leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, and former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, attended the inauguration of Dr ...

While Zuma may now be a card-carrying member and leader of the MK party, he reneged on his comments in May when he said he would “die in the ANC”. The GNU was formed after the ANC lost its ...

In December 1997 Zuma was appointed deputy president of the ANC. In mid-1999, he was sworn in as deputy president of South Africa, under then president, Thabo Mbeki. Six years later, Mbeki fired him.