There have been many calls for a secret ballot in the impending vote of no confidence in South Africa’s president. However, is secrecy really what the country wants at this time, and would it not be setting a lasting, damaging precedent? asks Brent Meersman.

If one still had any doubt about the reality of state capture in South Africa, the failure to criminally investigate an avalanche of evidence or bring the Guptas to book is all the proof one needs.

This is the first in a short series of columns on what the “Gupta leaks” mean for South Africa.

Will the South African state fail or can the country thrive in the next 15 years? Four scenarios give us a glimpse of the rainbow nation’s potential fate.

Corruption is at the root of what ends in angry commuter protests.

Women, health and human rights organizations dismayed by law commission’s backward recommendation.

Drought conditions may see the city of Cape Town in South Africa on water rations.

President Jacob Zuma must be voted out of office in Parliament by ANC MPs and not “recalled” by his party.

President Jacob Zuma’s axing of Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan and his deputy was brazen, but expected. It has been met with unprecedented outrage, but Zuma isn’t budging. The question is, can the ANC do the extraordinary, and vote out its president in Parliament?

Premier of the Western Cape Helen Zille tweeting that colonialism wasn’t all bad goes to the heart of what apartheid remains deeply to blame for – a nation that has been unable to forge a common understanding and a shared vision for South Africa