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Gauteng’s ‘Coloured’ community feels unsafe: who they are and why they’re discouraged
10th October 2025 The “Coloured” community in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic heartland, continues to face barriers to full economic and social inclusion. Despite... →
Can Africa shift from victim to player at COP30?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th October 2025 Shaping global climate diplomacy requires strategic thinking and a new script during the upcoming COP30 negotiations. Last month’s second Africa... →
Debt and theft
By: Terence Creamer 10th October 2025 The twin crises of surging municipal arrear debt owing to Eskom and rising electricity theft have been lurking for years, and with all efforts to... →
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... →
