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Villagers from a community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape fought to be consulted and for the power to consent to mining their land.
South Africa’s electoral commission’s failure to ensure a credible voters’ roll threatens to undo its legacy of free and fair elections.
South Africa needs a policy that drives growth and positions if for the 21st Century.
Human Rights Day might not be a reason for celebrations. But it’s a useful reminder of what’s been achieved over 70 years.
The awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad should strengthen efforts against the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
There have been positive changes in Ethiopia but major challenges, including ethnic tensions, remain.
For many Zimbabweans Robert Mugabe will remain a contested figure.
Surveys shows that the majority of Africans prefer democracy, despite its flaws, to the alternatives.
It is difficult to see how the EU can allow its key African migration work to be supervised by Eritrea.
The transition to digital media is messy, and sometimes bloody – and beat journalism is among the victims.
More attention needs to be paid to aligning South Africa’s family policy with the realities of everyday life.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has performed remarkably well in protecting democracy since 1995.
Despite the large number of aspirants for Nigeria’s 2019 elections, women and young people remain underrepresented.
The Economic Freedom Fighters’ strategy of painting President Ramaphosa and his allies as corrupt is unlikely to succeed.
A study in Kenya found that the lower men ranked themselves in society, the more violent they were with their intimate partners.
There’s increasing global recognition that violence against women and children often occur together in homes.
Disinformation in Africa often takes the form of extreme speech inciting violence and spreading racist, misogynous, xenophobic messages.
When children are drawn into their countries’ informal justice systems, their human rights are often threatened.
The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
Introducing companion animals to South African prisoners and encouraging them to write could aid their rehabilitation.
South Africa has made progress towards interrupting the looting of land by chiefs, state officials and mining capital.
The jihadi initiative remains a loose political force in Kenya. This is dangerous for a few reasons.
Prevailing patriarchal and cultural norms in some societies prevent women victims of sexual crimes from talking out by shaming them.
The main reason land reform in South Africa has been lethargic is not the Constitution, but a flawed approach.