To navigate this evolving landscape, African states must embrace a strategy centred on economic resilience, industrialisation, regional integration and self-reliance.
Xenophobic attacks remind us of what happens when the government fails to deal with citizens’ needs.
Our waste-management sites are filling up fast, with serious health and environmental consequences
His approach is likely to damage democracy – and the very people who voted for him
The country needs to retain existing trade partners, while seeking new ones, and delivering excellent products.
Countries such as Uganda, South Sudan and the DRC must learn from the devastating 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
The constitutional court found that section 6(1)(a) of the South African Citizenship Act is unconstitutional as it infringes the right to citizenship and, consequentially, other constitutional rights.
When strongmen with nationalistic and populist tendencies begin to dominate politics, we should be worried.
These towns are not anomalies, they are barometers of how far South Africa still needs to go in confronting the unfinished business of its past.
The Democratic Alliance’s rush to court over debates it has lost such as employment equity is an abuse of the law
It can eliminate the need for expensive and time-consuming manual audits, creating verifiable financial histories automatically, with minimal cost.
The central bank has maintained price stability but needs to focus on growth given the high unemployment rate.
Activity-based and experiential learning should be encouraged at school and tertiary institutions so that the academic curricula must align with new realities.
The Partition’s wound has been reopened as the rulers of the two countries resort to violence for their own ends.
We must address the global shortage of nurse educators by investing in nursing education and ensuring their well-being.
The skies over Sudan are pregnant with the promise of rain, but for millions, this is not a promise of life, but a chilling harbinger of death. The guns have fallen silent only in their ability to drown out the cries of the starving, the hollow coughs of children whose bellies are swollen with emptiness. […]
Racist posts can go viral in seconds, showing the world that South Africa’s divisions are not history, and reminding us that we still have work to do
Given the shaky coalition government, two sections in the Constitution appear to create a quandary regarding ministers actions in the cabinet
The country’s revival of the Sedition and Subversion Act is a revival of a colonial law that stifles human rights.
If revolutions are to succeed, the people must deliver freedom. They must reject authoritarianism, a small revolutionary elite or a military junta.
To make their voices heard, young people must be more selective in the issues they support and need to put in the hard work
If the court is to succeed, African states must not simply follow. It is not about importing solutions but about shaping them.
The Kenyan American political scientist argued that the Global South acquiring nuclear weapons would lead to universal nuclear disarmament
The Democratic Alliance, the Free Market Foundation and the Institute of Race Relations have flawed views regarding employment equity
Financial crime governance should be happening in the boardroom and the legal and financial fallout from the lack of enforcement is becoming increasingly serious
Born Free is a bold, unfiltered voice for South Africa’s youth
Judd Devermont, who served under the Obama and Biden administrations, asked questions, danced around answers and shared insights.
Professor Bonang Mohale received the Diamond Award for Global Educational Leadership from the The Not Alone Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, this month. This is his acceptance speech.
The recovery of crops bodes well for consumers as prices should come down
Born Free is a bold, unfiltered voice for South Africa’s youth
Freedom is not about slogans or votes, it is something we must make together by our actions, in a country inured to violence and a world where self-interest rules.
The move reflects France’s strategic recalibration amid rising domestic pressures, European fragmentation over Gaza and a widening rift with Washington.