There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.

Despite numerous policy interventions since apartheid, South Africa remains the world's most unequal nation, with racial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ivor Chipkin teaches public policy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) at the University of Pretoria. He is the director of the New South Institute. After South Africa’s first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Luisa Pittan Doring examines the Women for Change movement in South Africa, following the nation's declaration that gender based violence has become a "national disaster".

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 ...