Reassessing Mandela is a reminder that even the most admired leaders operate within constraints.
Queen Elizabeth adjusted with aplomb and good grace – personally and as monarch – as countries achieved their independence from...
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has agreed, in principle, to employ its workers directly, and charges were dropped against 23 protesters. But at Wits, students...
Human Rights Watch has released a report documenting the abuse, beatings and involuntary treatment of people with psychosocial disabilities in Somaliland’s private and public health centres
Breaking new ground, 28 year-old Lieutenant Ouma Laouali, becomes Niger’s first female pilot to serve in the country’s armed forces
There has been outrage over plans to racially segregate fans after a shocking video of four black fans being attacked during a Champion League match emerges
With as many as 14 sub-Saharan African states taking to the polls, 2015 has been a critical year on the election calendar. On Sunday Tanzania, a...
The education minister Lazarus Dokora says pupils ‘will be instructed in the languages that have been accepted in our Constitution’
Born in Paris in the 80s, Danielle Eog Makedah discovered music by leafing through her father’s vinyl collection. Descriptions of royalty seem to have followed Danielle...
Amidst the #FeesMustFall protests, a second #MustFall has emerged and has largely fallen under the radar: #ThePriceOfBreadMustFall. On Tuesday, a group of activists occupied the Shoprite...
US Republican Party's presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has once again caused a stir by expressing his beliefs that the world would be a better place if...
This past week, the ANC was dealing with its biggest jolt since it came to power in 1994. With little more than a hashtag, #FeesMustFall, and...
