For democracies to function well, citizens have to trust their institutions. Every incidence of bad service delivery or ...

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

The ANC and the DA suffered from an identity crisis. The ANC behaved as though it were still the governing party. On the ...

A coalition government is now a fact of life in South Africa. The events of 2025 and the upcoming 2026 local elections show ...

Others go as far as attempting to steal the very names and symbols that belong to the ANC and its fallen heroes ...

South Africa’s international relations stance in 2025 reflected an enduring capacity to maintain strategic focus and ...

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

Elite capture, institutional weakness and cycles of reversal explain the situation in several post-colonial countries.

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir is pressing parties to the 2018 peace agreement to amend provisions requiring a new ...

As a student, I was often intrigued by open-ended examination questions such as "No Nile, No Egypt. Discuss." Such questions demanded analytical reasoning grounded in historical facts. That early ...

A scheduled T20 cricket match between India and South Africa in Lucknow was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to ...

The Unity Accord, signed 38 years ago today, encouraged the unity of Zimbabwe’s two main national liberation movements, ...