Why isn’t offshore oil and gas South Africa’s next mining boom?

Local elections do not inspire liberation songs or grand manifestos. But they shape the terrain on which national power is won or lost

This is why hunger cannot be addressed
through food parcels, feeding schemes or emergency relief alone

Gqeberha’s crisis is not simply about water scarcity. It is about whose lives matter, whose voices are heard and whether South Africa is willing to confront the unfinished business of apartheid in its most basic public services

The uncritical cheerleaders for the West cannot be taken seriously until they acknowledge that the West supports and collaborates with authoritarian regimes such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt

Responsibility without accountability does not strengthen democracy; it hollows it out.

History does not belong to kings, politicians or even historians alone. It belongs to the evidence. And the evidence, in this case, does not support the proposed renaming

The 2026 State of the Nation Address will outline ambitious policy goals. But policies implemented in digital silence will struggle to earn democratic legitimacy

Although critics like to believe otherwise, the country is not choosing sides in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Various regions in southern Africa share a common trajectory: improvement in the first two decades after the 1990s, followed by decline

As we approach World Cancer Day 2026, we must confront a harsh reality: we cannot simply “borrow” solutions from the Global North if we hope to save lives at home

In a world where political leaders often rely on euphemism and denial, it was striking to hear a Canadian prime minister acknowledge, plainly, that the so-called “rules-based international order” has been applied selectively

Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, offered a blunt assessment of global governance, describing what he termed a ‘middle-power revolt’ against ‘performative multilateralism’