In trying to provide an alternative to the ANC, the new political grouping has fallen into old traps
What does the former president’s ineligibility for re-election mean for the country?
Hundreds of supporters of Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro broke through police barricades and stormed into Congress, the presidential palace and the Supreme Court…
Manipulators of nationalism, religious identity and racism are a constant risk to democracy across the world.
Recent and past successes of the Workers’ Party in Brazil shows that self-emancipation of the oppressed is possible
In a speech that lasted just over two minutes, the far-right incumbent neither acknowledged defeat, nor congratulated Lula on his victory
A country cannot survive in isolation, particularly given that leaders of rightwing parties have ascended in countries around the world
The far-right president has not spoken publicly or on his beloved social media accounts since the result was announced, raising fears over how he will react, after months of…
Burning tires, as well as vehicles such as trucks, cars and vans were blocking several points in the central-western agricultural state of Mato Grosso, which largely supports…
Seeking to make a spectacular comeback, ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to garner the votes needed to avoid a runoff
Former president Lula is in the lead in the polls ahead of the first round of elections on 2 October. These elections will be transformative for Brazil and will ramifications…
While the summit leaders solemnly swear that they are singing off the same struggle song sheet towards progressive development, the bloc’s leaders’ solidarity is mostly skin-deep
To understand more about what’s going on in South America’s most populous country, and what might happen next, The Continent spoke to João Bosco Monte, the head of the Brazil…
Football supporters often fantasise about seizing control of their clubs, sending owners and officials down the tunnel. But evidence suggests that democratic, fan-owned teams are…
President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to hold ‘fireside chats’ and have more power and institutional muscle around him, writes Richard Calland
Anti-racism and political contagion from Save Darfur to Black Lives Matter
Let us please not repeat the devastating Aids story where people died of shame rather than admit being infected by the virus
Responses to terrible inequality, climate change and the Covid-19 economic crisis will decide this
Opposition parties and ANC ‘factions’ will attempt to use the crisis to their advantage
The state of politics and geopolitics has been exacerbated, rather than stabilised, by the coronavirus crisis
