By Sapa, Reuters –  Foreign ministers of three Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) member states will be discussing the recent events in Lesotho, the international...

By Ntsakisi Maswanganyi – THERE has been a dramatic expansion in the middle class in SA since 1994, and the largest share of this...

By Penwell Dlamini –  Pravin Gordhan has sent a warning to politicians: no matter how poor, South Africans are not stupid and will use...

By Lebogang Seale – Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma has urged South Africans to “defend and celebrate” the country’s constitution, saying it is one...

By Vuyo Mkhize – Johannesburg – Former pupils and supporters of a Joburg high school principal have come to her defence over alleged racism...

By News 24 – Cape Town – President Jacob Zuma has reportedly summoned Lesotho’s political leaders for emergency talks following an apparent coup in...

By GroundUp –  The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry into policing has made many important recommendation to the National Minister of police. These include agreed...

By Lisa Steyn – South Africa has narrowly averted a recession with economic growth clocking in at 0.6% in the second quarter of 2014....

By Helena Hofbauer –  The International Budget Partnership has published a handbook on using budget analysis to hold governments to account  The last few decades...

By Polity – Home Affairs Deputy Minister Fatima Chohan says the underrepresentation of women in social, political and economic spheres must be addressed if Africa is...

By Barbera Maregele –  The organisations that originally called for the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha have welcomed...

By Maarten Mittner –  THIS will be a week of reckoning for the South African economy. Second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data set to...