For this year’s Mail & Guardian God Edition, we asked a number of the country’s prominent politicians what role faith plays ...

By all accounts, South Africa’s conundrum that is the Government of National Unity (GNU) will likely fester into a ...

From Sudan and South Sudan to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Africa's peace and security ... as peace support operations. Youssouf's leadership began amid major global and regional ...

South African multiparty delegation completes historic fact-finding mission to Israel amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. 10 April 2025. Note to Editors: for images of the t ...

For Mandela, forgetting the past is the prerequisite for the embracement of democratic triumph over the horrors of apartheid.

Despite the ANC and the DA leadership having described as “constructive” weekend discussions to break the budget impasse and ...

As tensions rise between Cyril Ramaphosa and Paul Mashatile over the DA's role in the Government of National Unity, a ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

The United States is no longer a reliable country. For some, this is nothing new. The Iraq War, launched in 2003 – resulting in over 100,000 deaths, lasting regional destabilization, and the return of ...

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of ...

Listen to this article The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the institution said it would defy the Trump ...