With an internal vote a week away, leaks and public fights, the party is grappling for direction

Over 7000 detainees, who are yet to be convicted of a crime, are currently held in South African jails because they cannot afford to pay bail.

Riah Phiyega has rejected a South African Institute for Race Relations report on police involvement in serious and violent crimes as "malicious".

The South African Institute for Race Relations says 81% of all murders in South Africa take place in black households.

DA lashes ANC for opposing closures in Western Cape while it closes schools in other provinces.

Head of the South African Institute for Race Relations, John Kane-Berman, says the Marikana shooting may force the ANC to abandon failing policies.

New research has shown a smaller proportion of South Africans are living at the bottom of the living standards rung in 2011 compared to 10 years ago.

Nine of the 10 municipalities with the highest murder rates in SA are in rural areas, the SA Institute for Race Relations said on Wednesday.

Both Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma profess themselves to be ”pro-poor”, and usually these presentations escape scrutiny in the media.

Two weeks of anti-foreigner violence in South Africa have highlighted the growing disconnect between a public impatient for change and a governing party that claims a divine…

A draft loyalty pledge has plunged South Africa into a new identity crisis as it mulls its common values 14 years after discarding apartheid to forge a united society under a…

A report by the South African Institute for Race Relations, which said South African schools were the most dangerous in the world, is ”media hype”, the Department of Education…

President Thabo Mbeki risks being cast aside by his party next week in favour of an arch rival who may yet be charged with corruption. Mbeki still has two years left as head of…