When Lindiwe Hlatswayo (30) recently walked onto the stage at Joburg Theatre carrying a portrait made from almost 80 000 beads, she wasn’t just presenting artwork to former president Thabo Mbeki – she ...

StatsSA data shows dramatic improvements in infant and under-five mortality, alongside a steady decline in fertility rates.

The University of South Africa should be commended for organising a major conference on “Global Governance: G20 and Africa’s ...

The National Dialogue, which will be held in three weeks, aims to foster national unity and develop shared solutions to South ...

The National Dialogue, which will be held in three weeks, aims to foster national unity and develop shared solutions to South Africa's pressing challenges.

We reflected on the balance of forces, our enduring strengths and the mounting challenges we face. In doing so, we outlined ...

Despite the much-celebrated 39;third wave 39; of democratic transitions that swept through Africa in the early 1990s, many ...

Nigeria’s silence in the global community contrasts markedly with South Africa’s vibrancy, begging us to ask if Pretoria’s ...

Last week, an event made headlines: the visit of Jacob Zuma, former South African president, to Rabat. He made a statement on ...

Southern Africa's liberation movements gathered in Kempton Park this weekend for a summit to discuss the state of their ...

When ANC under Mandela created the new, non-racial electoral system in 1993, instead of extending to all races the previous whites-only democratic system of electing individual candidates, it ...