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Mxolisi Zondo is a researcher at Good Governance Africa

In the second quarter of 2025, unemployment edged up to 33.2% in the second quarter of 2025 from 32.9% in the previous quarter, while of the 10.1 million people aged 15 to 24, 35.2% were not in employment
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

2022 census: Growing concerns over South Africa’s development agenda

There are a number of employment dynamics which will hinder the country’s development if not addressed

  • Mxolisi Zondo
6 min read
President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
ARGENTINA

Brics: A conflicted but emerging new centre of global power?

We could yet witness the bloc emerge as a new power hub but only after a plethora of issues have been solved

  • Siseko Maposa
  • Mxolisi Zondo
7 min read
Coalitions emerge in proportional systems largely because these systems produce more political parties over time
ACCOUNTABILITY

How to resolve SA’s political accountability crisis

Citizens suffer when the state is not held to account and directly electing MPs and members of the provincial legislature could solve this.

  • Pranish Desai
  • Mxolisi Zondo
7 min read
Over the past decade, the South African Post Office has had significant business problems, including debt to creditors and poor revenue collection.
AUDITOR GENERAL

South Africa needs a ‘Post Office of Tomorrow’

To become profitable, the state-owned entity requires an expanded mandate that allows it to venture into e-commerce services

  • Mxolisi Zondo
5 min read
Switch up: President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to make changes to policy and to the executive branch of the government. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP
ANC

The cabinet reshuffle will make or break the ANC

Who President Ramaphosa keeps and who he appoints will determine the course of not only the ruling party but also the country

  • Mxolisi Zondo
5 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
ANC ELECTIVE CONFERENCE

ANC conference: Phala Phala must not detract from critical governance issues

South Africa is likely to have coalition governments at every level so the ANC – and opposition parties – must prepare for this

  • Mxolisi Zondo
  • Pranish Desai
7 min read
Unhappy: President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his State of the Nation address in February the social compact had 100 days to deal with unemployment and to boost economic growth. Nine months later, this has not been achieved. (GCIS)
BUSINESS

SA’s social compact has stalled

While the president’s predicament is creating uncertainty, the work of forging a durable social compact has struggled to gain traction. Why?

  • Mxolisi Zondo
6 min read