13+ hour, 30+ min ago   (1674+ words) – September 14, 2026 A few weeks ago, a first-year politics student at the University of Cape Town sent me a folder containing a set of seven audio recordings, each about 45 minutes long, of lectures recently delivered by Dr Lwazi Lushaba during the…...

13+ hour, 30+ min ago   (426+ words) – September 14, 2026 Start with leader favourability. In South Africa as a whole, Jacob Zuma, the purported fiend of state capture, has a favourability score of 26% and an unfavourability score of 56%. In practice, what this means is that a quarter of people…...

13+ hour, 30+ min ago   (421+ words) – September 14, 2026 The project is being driven by Ernst Roets and his new Lex Libertas think tank. Roets is a hardliner and former deputy CEO of AfriForum. He is perhaps the most hardline Afrikaner leader South Africa has produced since the…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (435+ words) – September 13, 2026 A lethal, quantifiable blow to the ANC's control of South Africa was the systematic destruction of its electrical infrastructure, a crisis accelerated under the banner of international “climate justice”. During global climate summits, external powers, and activists heavily incentivised…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (335+ words) – September 10, 2026 There has been no starker case study of this than the multi-year lobby and court action the two groups have run against the introduction of what is, in practice, a variation of the charter school model for South Africa,…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (129+ words) – September 10, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters whether the country is on…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (189+ words) – September 9, 2026 Here follows some of the data. South Africa has a population of around 63 million people. Of those, only around 16.7 million people, or 27%, are employed. There are only around 750 000 people earning more than R750 000 a year, equivalent to roughly 1.2% of South…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (121+ words) – September 9, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters how each governing party is…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (460+ words) – September 9, 2026 Two things happened in South Africa this past week. The African National Congress (ANC) forgot to register some of its candidates with the Electoral Commission (IEC) for the November elections and South Africa’s economic growth rate came in at…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (101+ words) – September 8, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters whether their standard of living…...