South Africa’s eight metropolitan municipalities all failed to achieve clean audits for 2024-25, Auditor‑General Tsakani Maluleke warned, in a report she described as a warning to...
Former president Jacob Zuma’s MK party has returned to court, arguing that a two-hour blackout of the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) live results dashboard...
Smaller, community-formed political parties can influence local government, but only if they develop the capacity to govern, says a university researcher reacting to a new Merafong-based...
The Electoral Commission (IEC) has warned political parties, prospective candidates and their supporters not to use the Commission’s name, logo or other branding in election campaign...
Journalist Hein Kaiser reports In her debut book Where To From Here, journalist and author Tara Roos examines the rise of coalition politics in South Africa...
South African media scrutiny has a problem: when fact-checks use narrow, literal tests they can clear political actors of deeper, documented ties. That is the central...