South Africa on Tuesday said around 250 000 Zimbabweans residing in the country on temporary visas due to expire this year can get three-year extensions, delaying...
Western journalists often write about Africa in absolute terms, offering reductionist narratives from which their readers form impressions of a continent they’ve never visited. I’m a...
"Africa is not poor, it is poorly managed", said Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2009. Equatorial Guinea, whose president has been in power for 35...
Those thought to have been dispossessed of land prior to 1913, particularly from the Khoi and San ethnicities, might now have another chance to make a...
South Africa is forging ahead with nuclear energy, as announced by president Jacob Zuma in his recent state of the nation speech. “Catastrophe”, was one immediate...
South Africa is a leader on the continent in the struggle for equitable democratic representation for women on Africa’s bodies of power. But after two decades...
Appointments in South Africa’s new cabinet have opened up a crude discourse about race and the definition of ‘black’ or ‘African’ and reveal the socio-political failure...
White people have benefited most from the dawn of freedom and democracy in South Africa. Nonetheless, at public events such as Freedom Day and the inauguration...