Columns

By changing gear from demonstrating the ANC’s city failures to fixing these, DA mayoral candidate Helen Zille may crack the code needed to win the city outright

Politics

The Shelley Garland affair was one of the great South African media exposés of the past decade, through which Marius Roodt exposed what many sensible people had long suspected: that the press would publish racist hate as long as it was framed from a leftist social justice perspective.

Economics & Policy

Bheki Mahlobo says the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) may keep interest rates unchanged at its next Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on 28 May, despite markets as well the balance of economists increasingly pricing in the prospect of a hike.

Columns

More and more business and elite South African actors are placing pressure on Geordin Hill-Lewis to save President Cyril Ramaphosa revealing the extraordinary power the DA now holds over the future of the ANC – it is unclear whether they should.

Columns

RW Johnson writes on the issue of xenophobia in South Africa and the growth in the population of African countries.