The way South Africa's new president Cyril Ramaphosa has constituted his cabinet reflects the distribution of power within the governing ANC.
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A succession of leaders have failed to address its problems.
Prime Minister Theresa May proved a bit of a push over instead of wielding the axe in her cabinet reshuffle.
South Africa's Constitutional Court has the difficult task of deciding whether MPs can have the protection of a secret ballot when voting whether to fire President Zuma or not.
President Jacob Zuma's grounds for appeal are surreal. He invokes the meaning of a rule set by the apartheid context he ferociously fought against, to justify his executive action in a democracy.
A ruling by a South African court makes it unlikely that the country will see any nuclear development in the foreseeable future.
Protests in South Africa have largely been confined to black working class townships and informal settlements. Is this beginning to change?
A captured South African Treasury is bad news for the country's poor but the view that the capture is a natural enemy of the market economy is a myth.
The promise of Easter, which Christians around the world celebrate, can be likened to the new struggle in South Africa for a new leadership and government that cares about the people.
An ideological debate is desperately needed to sort out options South Africa could pursue to find a way out of its economic morass.
The best chance South Africa has of recovering from sub-investment grade credit rating status is to have leaders who are prepared to break rank with the small-mindedness of the ruling party.
South Africa's energy sector is perhaps at its most fluid and unpredictable stage it has ever been in.
The focus will now be on how the social democratic and left-leaning members of South Africa's cabinet -- the "constitutionalists" -- will respond to the reshuffle.
What challenges will Arthur Sinodinos face as he becomes the latest to take up the science portfolio?
Will merging the environment and energy portfolios result in joined-up thinking, or one set of ideas steamrollering the other?
President Jacob Zuma's era has been characterised by a high turnover, not only of cabinet members, but also senior public officials and executives in state-owned enterprises.
The sudden expulsion of the finance minister makes it hard not to be pessimistic about the South African government's ability to manage the difficult challenges it might face in 2016.
On the face of it, John Whittingdale's appointment as media and culture secretary spells trouble for the BBC.
Tony Abbott has seized the opportunity for a significant reshuffle that he says puts “jobs and families” at the heart of his 2015 agenda, as he seeks to “reset and refocus” his battered government. The…
Senator Arthur Sinodinos has announced his resignation from the ministry, clearing the way for Prime Minister Tony Abbott…
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