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A government warning. A court ruling. And a country on edge. It started in May 2023, when two civil society organisations — the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and Lawyers for Human Rights — took the South African government to…
Picture this: a refugee reception office somewhere in South Africa, a person who crossed the border without papers standing at the door, uncertain whether they will be turned away. For years, that uncertainty was baked into the law itself. Then,…
A Country at Breaking Point On Wednesday, October 7, South Africa’s streets will fill with workers demanding what should already be guaranteed: fair wages, secure jobs and basic dignity. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, better known as Cosatu,…
Eritrean soldiers are on the move inside Ethiopia’s Tigray region, and the Horn of Africa is once again holding its breath. Multiple residents of the Tigrayan town of Adigrat have told journalists that large military convoys bearing Eritrean registration plates…
A Student’s Frustration Becomes a Digital Solution Dylan Steiner, a 20-year-old Business Science student at the University of Cape Town, has launched Bites — a food discovery and price comparison app targeting diners tired of overpaying for meals across Cape…
A billboard does not need to stay up to cause damage. That is the central lesson emerging from a political standoff in KwaZulu-Natal, where the African National Congress is pushing the Electoral Commission of South Africa to hold the Democratic…
A Historic Push for a Global Inequality Body World leaders were called upon in September 2026 to back the creation of an International Panel on Inequality, a proposed permanent scientific body that would sit within the multilateral system and assess…
It began with a notice served in a prison cell. On 29 September, Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya — suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner of South Africa — was handed formal notice of disciplinary proceedings while being held at the Randburg Magistrates’…
When soldiers roll tanks into a capital city and announce over state radio that the government has fallen, many people — exhausted by corruption, economic hardship, and political dysfunction — feel a flicker of hope. The generals promise a reset.…
A legal dispute over candidate lists could cost the ANC more than just a court case — it could reshape the outcome of the November 4 local government elections entirely. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has issued a stark warning: if…
