A 'spy bill' giving investigators the right to intercept phone calls has been diluted following a public outcry, but the government remains intent on stepping up surveillance on...

As he was preparing his state of the nation address in Cape Town City Hall on 10 February, President Cyril Ramaphosa was deluged with contradictory advice about the...

When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa takes the podium on 10 February in Cape Town's City Hall – which will substitute for the colonial-era parliamentary buildings gutted by...

On 24 January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's main opponent in the last general elections, Nelson Chamisa, launched a new political party, hoping to close the chapter of rivalries and...

A long-delayed bribery trial, in which 10 highly connected businessmen and politicians stand accused of siphoning money from Namibia's fishing industry, risks turning voters away from the party...

President Lazarus Chakwera's reshuffled cabinet pointedly snubs his Tonse Alliance coalition partners, the United Transformation Movement (UTM) of Vice-President Saulosi Chilima and the People's Party (PP) of former...

The row between President Cyril Ramaphosa and Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu over her criticism of the country's judges and constitution has opened the race for the top posts...

Accusations of procurement corruption, fraud and bribery are gripping the public and damaging the image of President Lazarus Chakwera, a strong critic of his predecessors over graft. Chakwera...

A startling attack on the constitution and the judiciary by a senior minister in President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet is the opening shot in a bid to replace the...

The dismissal this month of security minister Owen Ncube, who earned notoriety for his ties to a militia as well as for a bloody crackdown on protestors, has...