
Adopted 60 years ago this week, the Freedom Charter is a seminal document in South Africa’s political development, yet 21 years after liberation, the brawl for...

Zimbabwean president and African Union chairperson Robert Mugabe lashed out at Africa's two biggest economies for what he describes as their betrayal of the continent which...

As South Africa's President Jacob Zuma took yet another trip to Russia, the country’s institutions continued operating in a state of grave uncertainty. Not that Zuma...

Like God, the king of Swaziland may move in ways mysterious to mere mortals. But presumably he has a purpose. That is surely not to establish...

The outgoing Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba was announced on Friday as winner of the Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership