Colluding with high-level crime syndicates, disbanding the political killings task force to protect the powerful, and the implosion of the police’s crime intelligence unit under his watch. These are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imraan Valodia receives funding from foundations that support independent academic research. Adam Habib does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...