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The sheer brilliance of Iran’s three-tiered governance structure
Mkhwanazi: Political killing task team disbanded when closing in on Gauteng syndicates
The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner said his testimony would deal with political interference by parliamentarians and the national executive
Mkhwanazi: Mchunu not briefed before disbanding political killing task team
The KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner said the order to disband the team was irrational and irregular
Political gangsterism is a clear and present danger
In collaboration with crooks, political mafias have emerged in which private fortunes are being built on plundered public wealth
Colombian left ascends to power by uniting progressive forces
The fourth instalment on lessons for the left shows how the Colombian left built a successful electoral project in face of brutal opposition from entrenched elites backed by US…
Record number of land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2020
In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed
Interview with Michela Wrong: The tool of power in Rwanda is fear
Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid, the theme of her latest book
The Africans in exile who live in fear of transnational repression
Governments across sub-Saharan Africa violently pursue exiles abroad. Democracies must push back
Ethiopia army chief, local officials killed amid regional ‘coup’ bid
Violence flared on Saturday afternoon in Amhara, one of nine autonomous regions, when a ‘hit squad’ attacked a meeting of top officials
The slow-motion assassination of Mohamed Morsi
Morsi was often kept in solitary confinement, while struggling with both diabetes and high blood pressure
Deadly twist to university dispute
A former colleague has been charged with the murder of an arts dean after threatening him
Verwoerd’s assassin a complex ‘hero’
Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who killed the architect of apartheid, was an enigmatic ‘revolutionary’ with a ‘deep social conscience’
Hani killer expected to apply for parole, again
Janusz Walus is expected to return to the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday morning to once again apply for parole
Taxi wars help to make KZN South Africa’s ‘hit’ capital
A report released this week exposed a growing crisis of contract killings in the country, and in the taxi industry in particular
Politicians stifle murder investigations
A look into the web of killings in KwaZulu-Natal reveals hitmen, security firms and political players