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Hallucination traps and knowledge gaps in policy
By: Saliem Fakir 10th October 2025 Policy-wonking can at times be a crude endeavour, and reality is not reached directly but through untested internal beliefs. Without direct... →
South Africans who blow the whistle face retaliation and murder: their stories over five decades
9th October 2025 South Africa’s long history of wrongdoing spans from Willem Adriaan van der Stel’s days of running a corrupt trading monopoly to present-day South... →
Cabo Delgado insurgency persists amid failed military strategy
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th October 2025 Eight years on, northern Mozambique’s terrorist threat remains acute despite the deployment of thousands of local and foreign troops. Cabo... →
Sudan’s civil war reignites the illicit car trade into Chad
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th October 2025 Numerous actors are involved in this surging criminal enterprise, with members of the rebel Rapid Support Forces becoming key players. Sudan’s... →
Fact or spin? Fact-checking Nigerian president Tinubu’s Independence Day economics
By: Africa Check 9th October 2025 Nigeria celebrated 65 years of independence from colonial rule on 1 October 2025. In a national address, president Bola Tinubu reflected on... →
From Johannesburg to Tshwane: Proof that revival is possible
7th October 2025 Becoming Mayor of Johannesburg in 2016 meant confronting a depth of rot and neglect that no soul could have been prepared for, a decay that had... →
South Africans are going off the service grid: what happens when citizens replace the state?
7th October 2025 South Africa’s constitution promises all citizens access to adequate housing and basic services – water, security, sanitation and electricity. In... →
Fact-checking Helen Zille’s claims about Johannesburg’s water crisis
By: Africa Check 6th October 2025 In September 2025, the Democratic Alliance (DA) named its federal council chair, Helen Zille, as its mayoral candidate for Johannesburg ahead of... →
Unity at any cost? AES states jointly leave the ICC
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th October 2025 Withdrawing from the global court shows that the Alliance of Sahel States prioritises joint action, whatever the consequences. On 22 September, the... →
Terrorist roadblocks strangle the economies of Mali and its neighbours
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 6th October 2025 JNIM’s blockades have become a strategic weapon that threatens regional commerce and the Malian army, and harms civilians. Since 3 September, the... →
