The Plan That Could Rewrite How Power Works in Your City South Africa’s Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has released a 192-page White Paper on Local Government reform, and if you care about why your municipality can’t fix…
Picture a politician standing before a crowd in Mt Kenya, chest out, microphone in hand, declaring that he speaks for the region. He hasn’t consulted the youth. He hasn’t addressed unemployment, the mental health crisis quietly swallowing young men in…
Picture a senior government official sitting in a county office, stripped of his budget, ignored on WhatsApp, and watching his junior officers handle work that was constitutionally his — yet still showing up every day, leading street operations, waiting for…
For decades, Kenyans have watched public servants collect salaries regardless of whether they showed up, delivered results, or simply warmed a government chair. That frustration — felt by every taxpayer who has queued endlessly at a government office, bribed a…
There is a market in Kitale that cost over Sh874 million of public money, took years longer than it should have, and is now at the centre of one of the most explosive political confrontations Kenya has seen in recent…
A six-year-old girl is lying in a Durban ICU with punctured lungs, a damaged liver and torn intestines. The system that was supposed to stop this had every warning. It did nothing. This week, a 16-year-old expelled student allegedly walked…
Brent crude oil surged past 109 dollars a barrel on Friday, rattling global markets and threatening a fresh wave of fuel price hikes that could squeeze South African consumers and hand US President Donald Trump a political headache just weeks…
There are Kenyan soldiers right now in Kismayo, Somalia, far from their families, operating in one of the continent’s most dangerous conflict zones. On October 16, their top brass finally showed up — and what happened next tells you something…
What actually happened at Forest Primary School in Trans Nzoia? A woman named Dona Makena walked into Forest Primary School in Trans Nzoia County with a straightforward question: why was her younger brother being charged lunch fees that nobody had…
Picture this: a president wrapping up an eight-day tour of the Coast, standing before a crowd of politicians who are supposed to be on his team, and telling them — with barely concealed urgency — to stop fighting each other.…
