SA businesses in Africa could feel ‘heat’ of xenophobic attacks

Many around Africa have expressed outrage at the xenophobia in SA, while SA businesses operating in the rest of Africa begin to feel pressured....

SA mercenaries are ‘giving Boko Haram a hiding’

By David Smith — The vexed leftovers of the apartheid military are reportedly turning the tide in Nigeria. Leon Lotz was once a member of...

Clean sweep of the poor is not constitutional

By Dennis Webster — In its bid to rid the city’s intersections of beggars and traders, Jo’burg is criminalising the poor. Since early February, the...

Cosatu boss accused of inciting violence

By Theto Mahlakoana and Shanti Aboobaker Johannesburg – The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has accused Cosatu president S’dumo Dlamini of inciting...

Zim MPs deliver anti-xenophobia petition to SA embassy

Harare – A group of  Zimbabwean lawmakers on Wednesday delivered a petition to the South African embassy in Harare, asking for action to be...

Zuma was subject of smear campaign: court papers

By Charl du Plessis, Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma was the subject of a smear campaign in the media because he had become the...

Can a black leader change an ‘institutionally white’ DA?

By Kwanele Sosibo — Analysts speculate that Mmusi Maimane could be the next DA leader, but there is doubt about whether this change would make...

Rwanda: Raised in the shadow of death

By Ryan Lenora Brown — Twenty-one years after the genocide, Rwanda is rapidly rebuilding its national identity – but ethnicity is still a factor. In...

22 arrested for xenophobic violence, Ethiopian victim dies

Police have arrested 22 people following another spate of xenophobic attacks around Durban Attacks on foreigners continued this weekend, with two Ethiopian brothers being...

Chinamasa: SA banks taking advantage of Zim

By Jenni Evans — Pretoria – Zimbabwe’s finance minister Patrick Chinamasa on Wednesday criticised South African’s banks for wanting to charge more when its...

Mugabe won’t budge on mining compliance

By Memory Mataranyika– Harare – Implementation of Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy is open to negotiation for regional partnerships, joint ventures with friendly countries and investments...

Rhodes statue to be removed from UCT, and Mugabe gives his opinion

By Lauren Hess — The University of Cape Town’s council ruled that the statue of Cecil John Rhodes, the centre of much debate over the...