PLITICS
South African Farmers Face Exceptional Danger
South African farming households are attacked at roughly twice the rate of households in the general population and farmers are nearly seven times more likely to be killed in such an attack than the national average.
24.9.2026 |
News Desk
DA KZN Leader Celebrates Making BEE Stricter
In an odd twist, the leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal and the province’s MEC for Finance has celebrated stricter adherence to race-based procurement laws even as his party fights those same laws.
23.9.2026 |
Staff Writer
FW de Klerk Foundation Fallout Highlights Domestic Discord on Foreign Policy
The prominent South African think tank has distanced itself from former director.
23.9.2026 |
Politics Desk
Mbalula to Face False Rape Claim Prosecution
The NPA has decided to prosecute ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula over remarks concerning former Bergview College principal Jaco Pieterse.
23.9.2026 |
Staff Writer
Hard Right, Hard Left Each Win State Election in Germany
Voters are increasingly turning away from the centre in Germany as AfD and Die Linke emerge victorious in key state elections.
23.9.2026 |
Staff Writer
SA’s Cities Have Moved Away from the ANC: Is the Country Next?
The DA has overtaken the ANC in the cities. What does that mean for November?
23.9.2026 |
Politics Desk
This is What Families Must do to Survive a Future South Africa
The Common Sense’s guide to South Africa's enclave future.
22.9.2026 |
Frans Cronje
Court Blocks Government’s Most Prescriptive Racial Procurement Regime Yet
The Constitutional Court has struck down the Public Procurement Act, stopping a new system that would have deepened mandatory race-based procurement requirements across hundreds of state institutions at great cost to the economy and South Africa's people.
22.9.2026 |
News Desk
South Africans Back the US Against the Government on BEE and EWC
Washington has put black economic empowerment and expropriation at the centre of its concerns with South Africa — and South Africans are taking Washington's side.
22.9.2026 |
Politics Desk
ANC “Always” Supported Meritocratic, Depoliticised Public Service – No, It Did Not
The ANC now claims it always championed a meritocratic, depoliticised public service, but its own record of cadre deployment and rejection of merit tell a very different story.
21.9.2026 |
Staff Writer
