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A City at a Crossroads Johannesburg is home to some of the most ambitious young people on the African continent — and some of the most locked-out. Youth unemployment in South Africa sits at a staggering rate that has long…
Africa is in the room. The question now is whether Africa gets to speak — and whether anyone with real power is actually listening. As India takes the helm of BRICS in 2026, a sharper debate is breaking out among…
A Gathering That Changes Everything The 18th BRICS Summit, now underway in New Delhi under India’s 2026 chairship, is not just another diplomatic photo opportunity — it is a high-stakes geopolitical experiment playing out in real time, and its outcomes…
A Flat World, A Distorted Truth Maps lie. Not always on purpose, but they do. Every world map you have ever seen in a classroom, a textbook, or on a government wall has shrunk Africa — and for centuries, almost…
A Candidate Gone in 12 Days On 28 August, the MK Party stood before cameras and unveiled Zandile Hlophe-Mkhwanazi as its mayoral candidate for eThekwini — the same day nominations officially closed. She was celebrated. A co-founder and CEO of…
South African politics is heating up ahead of the November 4 Local Government Elections, and a major internal ANC dispute has now spilled into the courts. Andile Lungisa, a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee, has filed an urgent…
A Kingdom Mourns, a Throne in Dispute Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, once celebrated by Guinness World Records as the world’s youngest reigning monarch, was buried on Saturday in Fort Portal amid mounting tensions over who will…
A South African-built open-source tool is quietly reshaping how artificial intelligence handles the world’s most neglected languages — and its reach now stretches from the streets of Nairobi to the steppes of Central Asia. TextAugment, developed by computer scientist Vukosi…
The MP Who Refuses to Be Written Off National Coloured Congress leader and Member of Parliament Fadiel Adams walked back into Parliament this week with a defiant message for anyone watching: he is not going anywhere. After serving a 20-day…
A Court Order That Limits Speech — But Not the Boycott Itself The Western Cape High Court has handed down a final interdict against Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) activists, barring them from publicly linking retailer Cape Union Mart and its…
