Cyril Ramaphosa

Subscribe to Sipho’s Weekly Political Newsletter. On Thursday, I was invited by the University of Witwatersrand chapter of the Golden Key Honour Society to a debate and panel discussion on the upcoming elections, looking…

NEWS ANALYSIS A number of steps have been taken to address the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide in South Africa since The Total Shutdown (TTS)-led march against it on August 1, 2018. Despite this, there is still work…

Walking into Sherwood play plot, two huge erected white tents welcome you. Despair, uncertainty, and confusion is written all over the faces of the displaced Malawian nationals who were kept at the place of safety, following violence that…

Leader of the African Content Movement (ACM) Hlaudi Motsoeneng says his party will bring some much needed “fresh air” onto the political scene. ACM, launched in December 2018, will be contesting all spheres of governance, starting with…

The fate of the next president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hangs in the balance. The disputed election results - released after long delays from the electoral commission - announced that Felix Tshisekedi as the winner. There…

Spirits were heightened as womxn* gathered at the old Putco depot in Pretoria on Wednesday before the Total Shutdown march began. We were singing and dancing and chanting. There were black, Indian, white and coloured womxn, lesbians,…

The Economic Freedom Fighters revealed that they have agreed with Contralesa (The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa) that traditional leaders are important in the land question. On Thursday, the party held two press…

Amidst the last few months of turbulent parliamentary politics and fierce leadership battles within the ruling ANC, bitter struggles on the forgotten streets, classrooms and workplaces stand on the brink of smashing what is left of South…

The damning statistics in the latest Oxfam global inequality report have many talking. MUSA MANZA explains what it means for South Africa, and what we need to do to change things around.  It’s the third week of the new year, and those…

The Marikana report by the Farlam Commission released by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday night was a farce. Instead of addressing the reasons for the Marikana massacre and advancing a programme of reconciliation and justice, the report…

“I feel like I am a sub-human being. My own country doesn’t want me, the South African community does not want me and this camp is being closed. I am prepared to fight for my right to be here when Tuesday comes.” Chatsworth, the…

After years spent struggling to convince motorists of the need to pay e-tolls in order to fund Gauteng’s sparkly new freeways, the government has essentially eaten its own words with the announcement on Wednesday that it would be…