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Paul Mashatile is set to become South Africa’s deputy president: what ...

February 19, 2023 no comments

Paul Mashatile was voted ANC deputy president in December 2022. Deaan Vivier/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape South Africa is set to have a new deputy...

Lesotho’s election brought change. Six things needed to promote peace ...

November 7, 2022 no comments

Outgoing Lesotho prime minister Moeketsi Majoro, right, hands over the national flag as the symbol of passing power to his successor, Sam Ntsokoane Matekane, on 28 October 2022. Molise Molise/AFP via...

Legal sex work in South Africa won’t create new problems, just help so...

November 2, 2022 no comments

Activists hold placards as they call for the decriminalisation of prostitution. MATTHEW KAY/AFP via Getty Images Rinda Botha, University of the Free State South Africa’s post apartheid government has...

Lesotho bungles political reforms, risking fresh bout of instability a...

October 14, 2022 no comments

Lesotho citizens queue to vote in a previous national elections. EPA-EFE/ Kim Ludbrook Hoolo ‘Nyane, University of Limpopo The Kingdom of Lesotho – a small landlocked country in southern Africa...

Why students don’t attend lectures: what we found at a South African u...

October 9, 2021 no comments

Christie Swanepoel, University of the Western Cape; Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape, and Rochelle Beukes Over the last couple of decades, factors influencing the success of first-year univer...

Zimbabwe detains NY Times freelancer Jeffrey Moyo over alleged accredi...

May 30, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK – PRN Africa — Zimbabwean authorities should immediately release New York Times freelancer Jeffrey Moyo and drop baseless charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalist...

Why Zambia’s upcoming poll risks tipping the balance against dem...

May 8, 2021 no comments

Nicole Beardsworth, University of Warwick Zambia is one of the fastest eroding democracies in the world. This is according to the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-dem), one of the most trusted sourc...

Risks and rewards for South African president as he takes the stand at...

April 28, 2021 no comments

Richard Calland, University of Cape Town President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to appear before the Zondo Commission of inquiry into corruption in South Africa comes at a delicate time. A great deal h...

Precarious power tilts towards Ramaphosa in battle inside South Africa...

April 21, 2021 no comments

Susan Booysen, University of the Witwatersrand It appears, for the moment, that South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has won a key battle in the war for control of the governing African National C...

Why South Africa’s HIV prevention programmes should include sex ...

March 29, 2021 no comments

Monique Huysamen, Manchester Metropolitan University and Marlise Richter, University of the Witwatersrand There are around 150,000 sex workers in South Africa. The National Strategic Plan on HIV iden...