7 Quotes From President Cyril Ramaphosa’s SONA
South Africa's fifth democratically elected president Cyril Ramaphosa had his inaugural State of the Nation Address on Friday night at the Parliament in Cape...
NSFAS Is On Its Knees
The chairperson of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (Nsfas) Sizwe Nxasana announced on 9 August that he was resigning from the funding body....
Extract: Nation on the Couch
Professor Wahbie Long’s Nation on the Couch explores life in our beloved country through the lens of psychoanalysis. By focusing on the idea of...
Redi Tlhabi’s Khwezi is an indictment on patriarchy and sexual violence...
Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo breathes within the pages of journalist Redi Tlhabi's new book, Khwezi, which tells the story of the woman who accused Jacob...
News Flash: How the #ShutdownSA is unfolding
On Wednesday, July 7, former South African president, Jacob Zuma, turned himself in to the police to begin his 15 months in jail for...
Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa’s deputy president: what...
South Africa is set to have a new deputy president in Paul Shipokosa Mashatile, the deputy president of the governing African National Congress (ANC)....
Whistleblower Athol Williams hopes to return home one day
Athol Williams, a lecturer and poet, has fled South Africa fearing for his safety. On November 7, Williams published a statement citing why he...
Durban food riots turn the wheel of history
South Africa’s social crisis has erupted as the people Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma deem expendable, those who bear the brunt of the past...
How Zuma’s free education plan will affect NSFAS and universities in...
President Jacob Zuma’s sudden announcement of a new free higher education policy came as a surprise, not the least because it came just as...
Book Extract Alert from Nuclear: Inside South Africa’s Secret Deal
Shortly after Zuma received treatment in Moscow for alleged poisoning, he signed off on a massive, far-reaching – and unlawful – nuclear power deal...
CR17 vs NDZ: the ANC, business and media endorsements
The race for president of the African National Congress (ANC), who will be announced at the party’s 54th national conference, currently stands between former...
“Zuma Is Like Jesus To Us”
Thousands marched to the Durban High Court on Friday, 6 April in support of the former president Jacob Zuma. At the court, where he...
(in)Famous medical parolees
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been released on medical parole. He had been serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court. His...
The ANC Recalls Zuma: What Happens Next?
The African National Congress’ (ANC) secretary-general Ace Magashule held a press briefing on Tuesday at the party headquarters Luthuli House to inform the media...
2021 in South Africa
The year 2021 is finally almost drawing to a close. It’s been a difficult year for many exacerbated by the pandemic, high cost of...
What The VBS Report Means For The ANC, EFF, DA
A new Treasury report details how Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Deputy President Floyd Shivambu's brother, Brian Shivambu, allegedly sent R10 million of the stolen...
How to become the president of the ANC
The African National Congress (ANC) will from 16 to 20 December hold its 54th national conference, where it will vote in a new president...
The Monkey Business of H&M and The Hokey-Pokey of the EFF!
It is fruitless to have debates about whether the H&M advert with a black kid wearing a hoodie saying “coolest monkey in the jungleâ€...
“Zuma’s free education plan impossible to implement” – analysts
On Saturday the presidency announced its resolutions on the funding of the higher education and training sector. It called for what is essentially a...
‘Five Fingers For Marseilles’ Is A Haunting Meditation On Failure
"Why did you come back? Once you turned the world upside down and ran. Now you are here and it starts again."
What happens after...
