The Mnangagwa regime’s coercive acts are a continuation of the violence and brutality of the Mugabe era, while he seeks global re-engagement and selective national dialogue.
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Colonialism and apartheid sought to make traditional leaders accountable to white officials by tying them to land.
South Sudan has been in the business of building peace for years but is no closer to implementing the roadmap to peace than when it drafted the first agreement.
Bad governance and political manoeuvring increase the risk of communal conflicts
Using the military continuously in internal roles for which it is not structured, funded or trained simply speeds up its decline.
The Public Protector’s Office has become embroiled in political scandals under the current incumbent, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
Social media is shaping Africa’s political engagement in diverse and complex ways.
The election’s result endorses other evidence that trust in South Africa’s constitutional settlement and its political institutions is steadily declining.
Corruption includes both what people do and what they fail to do. The critical issue is a person’s motive.
Calls for secession in Ethiopia could destabilise the entire nation.
Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
We found that women who had access to subsidised day-care services were 17% more likely to be employed than those who were not.
Secrecy over who funds political parties should trigger fears that government decisions will reflect the wishes of large donors.
Women were able to pursue an impressive feminist agenda as South Africa made its transition to democracy. But 25 years later there’s not a lot left of the early victories.
Germany praises itself for having declared a ‘special responsibility’ for Namibia since independence. But the relationship is viewed differently from Windhoek.
In a surprising change in trends, citizens in many African countries increasingly support government restrictions of press freedom.
Like many great men, the legacy of Ghana’s independence hero is not uncontested.
The already extremely fragile political condition cannot handle any further instability and chaos.
Artisanal and industrial mining have a different impact on local conflict in eastern Congo.
In the recent Nigerian election WhatsApp was used to mislead voters in increasingly sophisticated ways. But it also strengthened democracy in other areas.
The ICC may be the only institution capable of breaking the current legal impasse.
A clandestine system of transfer payment, with roots in apartheid-era boycotts, has developed into routine behaviour on which many family budgets now depend.
In this case, the appropriate conclusion about the Constitutional Court’s finding against the Public Protector is that there’s much to be comforted by.
The state in Ghana still justifies taking steps that amount to suppression of the media.
By positioning himself as a loveable granddad to supporters and the punchline of a joke to his opposition, Zuma adroitly defangs the very serious charges against him.