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There is a quiet economic revolution unfolding in South Africa’s townships, and it runs on fibre optic cable. The thesis is simple but powerful: high-speed internet connectivity is not just a convenience for township residents — it is a structural…
A senior employee at South Africa’s Social Security Agency (SASSA) has lost his bid to overturn his dismissal after the Labour Appeal Court ruled that he had assaulted his manager and committed gross insubordination. The case, which played out against…
It began, as so many South African corruption scandals do, with a government tender — this one worth a staggering R360 million, awarded by the South African Police Service to a healthcare company called Medicare24 Tshwane District, owned by a…
For years, Ethiopia’s armed opposition movements operated in fragmented isolation, each pursuing its own grievances against the central government in Addis Ababa, each fighting its own corner of a country that has long been pulled apart by ethnic tension, political…
A Politician Making Noise Before the Vote With South Africa’s November 4 local government elections drawing closer, Economic Freedom Fighters Member of Parliament Carl Niehaus has fired a volley of pointed questions at several government ministers, covering everything from the…
A Pattern That Keeps Repeating There is a story South Africa keeps living through, generation after generation, and it goes something like this: the country gains access to something powerful — a resource, an infrastructure, a technology — benefits from…
A Political Storm Over a Suspended Top Cop The uMkhonto weSizwe Party formally demanded on Wednesday that President Cyril Ramaphosa immediately lift the suspension of National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola, arguing that the withdrawal of all criminal charges against…
Picture a village where gunfire punctuates the night. Where women gather their children and whatever they can carry, abandoning homes their families have lived in for generations, not because of war in the conventional sense, but because armed groups have…
It started with five demands. In December 2025, the United States formally presented the South African government with a list of five specific “asks” — a diplomatic signal that Washington was running out of patience. The demands covered a range…
The relationship between Washington and Pretoria has hit a serious wall, and the pressure is only building. Over the past months, the United States has rolled out a sequence of punishing measures against South Africa — slashing aid to HIV…
