By Gregory Simpkins Let me begin by saying that there is no genocide in South Africa. According to Article II of the United Nations Convention o...
By Gregory Simpkins South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (Madiba – clan name of respect in the Xhosa language), Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah (Osagyefo – redeemer in the Akan...
By Gregory Simpkins The Republic of South Africa has long been considered the hub of the wheel of the southern Africa region. It is the most...
Bloomberg | South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma’s newly formed party vowed to nationalize land and banks, withdraw from the International Criminal Court and expand the...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is expected to receive a frosty reception when he opens parliament on Thursday, with opponents set to disrupt his nationally-televised state...
Incumbent South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and leader of opposition Democratic Alliance Party Helen Zille (r). PHOTO/Daily Maverick South Africa will hold general elections on...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s biggest union is considering pulling out of the African National Congress (ANC)-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) labor federation to...
Julius Malema. PHOTO/File The African National Congress (ANC) expelled the party’s youth leader late Wednesday, the latest attempt to control a figure who has angered his...
Nationalization is not an option for South Africa’s troubled mining industry, the country’s mining minister told an international audience Tuesday. A nationalization debate within mining minister...
Julius Malema Julius Malema has lost an appeal against a decision by South Africa’s ruling party to suspend him. He was suspended from the African National...
South Africa’s fiery youth leader Julius Malema (pictured) on Monday asked the ruling African National Congress (ANC) to set aside his five-year suspension, in a bellwether...
Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find...
He used to be dismissed as an ignorant buffoon, whose populist ranting and colourful racist tirades usefully filled newspaper column inches on a dull day. But...
