It’s time for SA to look beyond BRICS to improve its...
On Thursday, 8 June, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) launched a new report titled Life beyond BRICS? South Africa’s Future Foreign Policy Interests....
Maimane: ‘The ANC’s funeral will be held in 2019, but it...
On Wednesday 31 May, the Presidency's budget vote was tabled in Parliament. What follows is a transcript of the speech given by DA leader...
For Jacob Zuma to go, Cyril Ramaphosa must win
Political analyst Ebrahim Fakir believes that, for President Jacob Zuma to go before the end of his term as head of state in 2019,...
Will the #GuptaEmails saga be the final straw for South African...
On Sunday, the Sunday Times and City Press published private emails between senior government heads, state owned entities and the Gupta family. The emails...
#NdloziAtUCT: eloquent on Fanon, basic on feminism
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) spokesperson aka The People’s Bae, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi gave a public lecture on post-colonial African liberation movements at the University of...
Sorry, Jeff Radebe, your apology is not enough
South African leaders have been getting away with their abuse of women for years. This time, it’s the turn of Minister in the Presidency,...
EFF want justice before reconciliation in Coligny
The North West Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)Â marched to the police station in Coligny to demonstrate against the decision by the magistrate to grant bail...
Does women’s political participation matter when the policies are still patriarchal?
On Wednesday, France's new president, Emmanuel Macron, caused a wave of excitement when he appointed a cabinet that was made up of 50% of...
Durbanites say Zuma is no longer ‘The People’s President’
On Sunday, President Jacob Zuma addressed people in a local church in Durban, where he said he will not step down unless the ANC...
Joburgers on the #SecretBallot: “These are issues that affect us, but...
As the Constitutional Court heard the United Democratic Movement’s arguments for a secret ballot in the vote of no confidence against Jacob Zuma on...
#VoteofNoConfidence: Secret ballots and ConCourt hearing explained


Since President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle, opposition parties have been pushing for his removal by court action, impeachment and votes of no confidence. Seven...
Nine times we questioned the EFF’s feminist politics
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) appeals to the marginalised and underrepresented. Theirs is a political party that speaks to the youth, the working class,...
What Desai forgets to mention about Malema in ‘Julius vs the...
In his latest Al Jazeera documentary, “Julius vs the ANCâ€, filmmaker Rehad Desai portrays Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) commander-in-chief Julius Malema as a rising...
Politicians finally visit Indian professor on hunger strike
Friday marks assistant professor Joshil Abraham’s seventeenth day on hunger strike as way of protesting against the Delhi government. Abraham, a professor from GB...
Remembering PAC anti-pass activist Philip Kgosana (1936-2017)
Former student leader and PAC activist Philip Kgosana has died. He was 81. Kgosana is best known for mobilising students in anti-pass protests in...
Zapiro needs to take a hard look in the mirror
Nine years after he first decided to use a rape metaphor to comment on the state of the nation, cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, better known...
LIVE BLOG: #NationalDayOfAction march in Pretoria
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“It has started now, it’s on,†says Malema at the end of his speech.
"When you leave here, go back home peacefully in a...
Practising empathy through protest and debunking the myth that issues...
April 7 was a day of national protest in South Africa. After President Jacob Zuma fired the finance minister, along with nine others, and...
Geopolitricks: there’s nothing radical about President Jacob Zuma or BRICS
Over the past few months President Jacob Zuma, and many of his supporters, have argued that the attacks on ANC and instability in South...
