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A murder trial gripping South Africa took a sharp and disturbing turn on Thursday when Fortunate Masilela, the first accused in the killing of Jabulile Ntimba, told the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court that police officers tortured her and coerced her into…
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…
A Warning That Came Back to Haunt Him When taxi mogul Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni stood before President Cyril Ramaphosa at an ANC campaign rally in KwaNdebele in 2024, his words were direct, almost theatrical in their boldness. With ANC chairperson…
Picture a continent watching a war it did not start, funding it did not provide, and a peace deal it had no seat at the table to shape. That is Africa’s position in the Russia-Ukraine conflict — and according to…
A Historic Appointment in North Africa Fatima Zahra El Mansouri has been named Morocco’s first female prime minister, appointed by King Mohammed VI following her centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM)‘s victory in last week’s parliamentary elections. The 50-year-old lawyer…
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…
A Nation Confronts Its Darkest Pattern Since July 2025, the bodies of eleven women have been discovered in and around Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg — and for many South Africans, the horror is not just in the numbers, but in…
When It’s Your Word Against Your Boss’s Picture this: you’re sitting in a disciplinary hearing, palms sweating, facing a manager who is telling a version of events that bears little resemblance to what actually happened. No witnesses, no paper trail…
A Party on the Ropes, A President on the Campaign Trail President Cyril Ramaphosa stepped into eThekwini on Monday, 28 September 2026, with something to prove. Facing a provincial political landscape that has shifted dramatically against his party, he stood…
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…
