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Common purpose: Africa Day should reflect the achievement of Agenda 2063’s aims to deliver inclusive and sustainable development to drive the pan-African dream of unity. Photo: AU

Have African leaders betrayed  the dream of 1963?

Africa Day is generally marked as a day for celebration, a day to rejoice at the steps taken by previous generations to fight against and eliminate the effects of colonialism,…

Pan-Africanism: Africa should evolve towards genuine unity and structural freedom or it resigns itself to
managing an elegant fragility while external powers continue to choreograph its destiny.

Africa and our hollow unity

Budgets are rewritten in Washington and Brussels rather than in Harare, Accra or Nairobi

Author Sello Hatang with Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane

Too many questions, just enough truth: Justice as a lifelong pursuit

The thread that held the conversation together was clear from the beginning: justice. Not the abstract kind confined to courtrooms and legal textbooks but justice as a lived…

Black Business Council accuses top law firms of resisting transformation over Legal Sector Code challenge

A legal battle over South Africa’s Legal Sector Code has reignited debate over transformation, ownership targets and procurement rules in the legal profession

Time to reflect: Easter holy days call us back to the foundational values of tolerance, solidarity and shared humanity. Photo: AAC /MakanakaMedia

From holiday to holy day

Rediscovering the power of Easter in a wounded world: Easter reminds us that leadership is not confined to positions of authority. It is lived out in our daily choices, in how we…

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa pauses NHI implementation pending Constitutional Court ruling

The Constitutional Court will hear challenges to the National Health Insurance Act from 5 to 7 May 2026

In her new book Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience, Zukiswa Wanner recounts the harrowing final hours of a civilian flotilla intercepted while attempting to break the blockade of Gaza

So Close to Gaza: Inside a Night the Gaza Flotilla Didn’t Reach Shore

In her new book Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience, Zukiswa Wanner recounts the harrowing final hours of a civilian flotilla intercepted while attempting to break the blockade of…

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)_

Ramaphosa’s tumultuous 2025

Diplomacy, domestic strains and a test of political authority underlined this year’s presidency

The G20 leaders summit was held in South Africa last week. (GCIS)

Of flags, flowers, fashion and flashlights

Johannesburg not only hosted a successful G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first to take place on African soil, but also delivered an impressive and memorable global event.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and President Cyril
Ramaphosa at the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.

How Ramaphosa Trump-ed his US counterpart: A global communication masterclass

The G20 Summit was a moment that announced to the world that the Global South is ready not only to contribute to global discourse but to shape it

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. (X)

Mbalula dares US to bring on sanctions against ANC leaders

The ANC secretary general said the party would not compromise on policies like black economic empowerment which have attracted the wrath of Washington

FlySafair said the price of jet fuel at local airports rose by about 70% in just one week, following a surge in global oil prices.
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Flysafair reaches wage deal with pilots, ending strike

According to union Solidarity, pilots will receive salary increases of between 6% and 6.9% over the next four years

AfriForum CEO, Kallie Kriel. Photo: @kalliekriel

AfriForum reiterates calls for US sanctions against Ramaphosa

Kallie Kriel said treason charges were baseless and would only serve AfriForum’s cause

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SA opts for quiet diplomacy over impossible mission to Washington

The government is trying instead to build alliances within the G20 as President Trump continues to malign South Africa

The department of basic education says it is willing to discuss language policies in the controversial Basic Education Law Amendment (Bela) Act, in the wake of legal action taken by trade union Solidarity.

Basic education department open to consultation on Bela Act language policies

Trade union Solidarity has said that the new law alienates Afrikaans-speaking learners

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Newly signed Expropriation Bill heading for court, cabinet clearing house

The EFF and MK party both believe the new law falls short of giving real muscle to land reform programmes

The 13th of December marks the end of the consultation period President Cyril Ramaphosa announced after he signed the Act to allow parties to find each other on contentious clauses. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Bela and factional strife stress test the GNU

The Democratic Alliance called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to draw on a settlement with Solidarity to end the impasse over the act

President Cyril Ramaphosa

South Africa’s G20 presidency will focus on climate change and Africa’s development problems

The focus would also be on Africa’s high debt levels, financing the just energy transition and the strategic use of critical minerals

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Nic BOTHMA / POOL / AFP)

Bela Act agreement does not undermine president’s powers, says presidency

The deliberations on clauses 4 and 5 have been extended by a further three months

Mbalula: Don’t blame ANC for highway police brutality

The ANC secretary general said the country would ‘forever’ remember the VIP police protection unit assault