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Voters in Namibia. An Afrobarometer survey found 72% turnout of the continent’s voting population. Photo: Gianluigi GuerciaI/AFP
AFRICA

Africa is speaking. Is anyone listening?

Citizens want to participate but there is a lack of reciprocity from institutions

  • Nyasha Mpani
4 min read
In post-apartheid South Africa, the system has evolved but has fundamentally stayed the same, triggering an inter-generational cycle of displacement. (Fredrik Lerneryd)
CITIZEN

Fixing the home affairs department is key to fighting xenophobia

Not only is the department dysfunctional and its officials hostile, but it does not act on its legislative and constitutional obligations

  • Christine Hobden
4 min read
The forensic investigation found Dagada to have acted in a manner that benefits those close to him
CITIZEN

Mashaba fires Finance MMC, lays criminal charges

Rabelani Dagada has also been suspended as a councillor by the opposition party’s FedEx pending an inquiry of the DA’s federal legal commission.

  • Nation Nyoka
3 min read
The Taliban has denied responsibility for an attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.
CITIZEN

Citizen fires photographer over doctored picture discussion

The Citizen has dismissed a photographer who drew attention to the paper’s doctored cover picture of the suicide attack in Kabul on social media.

  • Faranaaz Parker
2 min read
The Taliban has denied responsibility for an attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad.
CITIZEN

Blurring the line between fact and fiction

The Citizen newspaper has been accused of breaching ethical codes after it doctored an image on its front page on Wednesday.

  • Faranaaz Parker
4 min read