Browsing: South Africa

On 16 December, South Africa’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party marks its first year of existence. Since its formation, the new political force has been riding high,…

Africa needs a permanent voice at the UN Security Council, but it won’t make much difference for ordinary Africans given the unimaginative political status quo plaguing…

Land and Zimbabwe. Like Siamese twins, the two are often mentioned together. That’s because the southern African nation of 16.7 million has had land at the…

South Africa is being accused of using one hand to fight Israel’s military onslaught on Gaza while using the other hand to count the money it…

Eleven years ago today, anti-apartheid hero and South Africa’s first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela died. His life was devoted to fighting against the settler oppression…

South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela died on this day in 2013 at the age of 95. Mandela is remembered as the man who helped lead…

South African freedom fighter and pan-African intellectual Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe would have turned 100 today. Sobukwe was born on 5 December 1924 in a Black township…

South Africa-based civil society organisation Open Secrets’ investigation has revealed Africa’s corrupt political elites have laundered embezzled public funds through South Africa’s real estate sector while…

South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters President Julius Malema announced on 25 November that the party would follow through on the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant…

As more than 1.4 million Namibians voted on 27 November in presidential and parliamentary elections, the question on many people’s minds is whether the ruling party,…