Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has rarely been far from scandal. Since his rise in the 1990s through the militant ranks of the Congress of South African Students, allied to the ...

The case of Farhad Hoomer has demonstrated South Africa’s difficulties in dealing with homegrown terrorism. The Islamic State’s South African cell got its nose bloodied on July 12 when South Africa’s ...

The U.S. State Department found that the human rights situation in South Africa has "significantly worsened" over the past year, citing reports of "extrajudicial killings" and repression against ...

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After South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, there was significant optimism about police reform in the country. Impressive steps were taken to bring the South African Police Service under ...

President Trump took the world by surprise when he cut off U.S. foreign aid to South Africa earlier this year. In a February executive order, he cited Pretoria’s “aggressive positions towards the ...

It’s Lawrence Kanyuka’s first visit to South Africa after the deadly confrontation between the group he speaks for, the Congo River Alliance/M23 rebels, and he is at pains to emphasise that he comes ...

A coalition government is now a fact of life in South Africa. The events of 2025 and the upcoming 2026 local elections show ...

South Africa on Wednesday said its authorities had arrested and would deport seven Kenyan nationals illegally working on processing refugee applications for the U.S. government.