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The Independent Electoral Commission has announced results of this year's local government elections. Speaking at the IEC operational centre on Saturday, the Glen Mashinini, IEC chairperson said that this was toughest and most contested…

With multiple players, factions and proxy wars playing out on its territory, understanding the war in Yemen is not easy. However, what we do know is that since March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition has bombed the country to smithereens. At…

Four months ago, President Jacob Zuma tried to reshuffle the cabinet and appoint a new Finance Minister. Curiously, that decision four months ago has precipitated debates about state capture now. This is a bit misplaced. The South African…

Merely hours after his release from prison on Thursday, student leader Kanhaiya Kumar addressed students and faculty members at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in a speech that has been lauded by progressives across the globe. In his…

The Daily Vox aims to put the citizen at the centre of news. Our young reporters seek to find, curate and amplify the voices of young South Africans caught between the BS.  In other words, whereas the young are often at the periphery of…

Sometime on Tuesday, much-loved political analyst Ebrahim Fakir threw a curve ball at the purportedly massive anti-corruption march scheduled to take place in Pretoria and Cape Town on Wednesday when he said: "Ag, no, I'm not coming". The…

Cape Town - The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has condemned the opening of the "Open mosque" in Cape Town, calling it "slanderous", "egoistic" and "blasphemous". Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the unfree world and…

Since March 2014, more than 2600 people across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have died in what is now the deadliest outbreak of Ebola ever. More than 5300 cases of the disease have been reported, with the World Health Organisation…