With little more than a week until United States President Barack Obama arrives in South Africa, the build-up is strangely muted.
The revelations about the Prism programme, which links NSA computers to Google, Facebook and Apple, among others, matter to South Africa.
Lawfare over the Constitution is among the most consequential features of our current political environment.
There is a lesson to be learnt from the Supreme Court of Appeal’s judgment against Gauteng’s former MEC of economic development, Qedani Mahlangu.
Nobody wants a repeat of Marikana’s bloody August 16 2012. But what measures are being put in place to prevent that?
Labour unrest that has taken new and more challenging forms is compounding the effects of slumping commodity prices.
A sigh of collective disbelief echoed across South Africa as the government’s report on the scandal surrounding the Gupta wedding was released.
The "justice" part of the criminal-justice system comes in for intense scrutiny, but the "criminal" part is, of course, just as important.
The intelligence services may be worse off now than we were during the most precarious moments of the Zuma/Mbeki transition.
Given what happened last year at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, it’s as well to approach the recent developments there carefully.