At first glance South Africans may seem divided along race and political party lines, but there is a great deal of common ground, with new ...

ActionSA’s surprisingly strong polling numbers could determine whether the DA wins outright majorities in Johannesburg and ...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is likely to be the biggest party in Johannesburg by some distance in next month’s local ...

UCT faces a major test of academic freedom as its Council considers punishing two members for publicly challenging the university’s policies and raising concerns about antisemitism. The University of ...

There is a convention that newspapers should not tell their readers who to vote for. In part because this newspaper is trying to up-end that world, and ...

According to the latest polling, which was conducted in September and October, the ANC had the support of 32% of voters. This ...

Bheki Mahlobo, the economics editor of The Common Sense, joins Gabriel Makin to explain what the latest fixed investment figures say about South Africa. The fixed investment rate measures how much ...

The ANC is down to almost single digits in a city where it nearly won a majority in the last municipal election.

A group comprising politicians and civil society leaders from Malawi, South Africa, Angola, Namibia, and Zimbabwe recently undertook a 10-day field-trip to Ukraine along with European colleagues. They ...

The awarding of two different Nobel Prizes shows how the world is split into the forces of destruction and civilisation. Were I the most based and influential individual on the Nobel Committee, there ...