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…
This Is What Impunity Looks Like A child was snatched from Eastleigh in broad daylight, smuggled across three countries, tortured on camera, and his family was made to watch. Then they were asked to pay for it. This is not…
The Advisory That Changes Everything The United States just told its citizens to think twice before boarding a plane to Kenya. On October 19, the US Department of State upgraded Kenya’s travel advisory from Level 2 to Level 3 —…
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…
A New Front in Africa’s War on Organised Crime Angola and Uganda have formally joined South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania in a five-nation regional coalition to crush drug trafficking and transnational organised crime — a move announced on October 16,…
Here is the uncomfortable truth that South Africa’s Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp is trying to get across before it is too late: the rains that fell in September are not a sign that everything will be fine. They are a…
Blood on the Ground in South Kivu On the morning of September 17, somewhere in the dense, mineral-rich terrain of South Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a convoy of private military contractors was moving between locations when the…
So the US Embassy is shutting its doors. Why should you care? If you had plans to visit the United States Embassy in Nairobi on Monday, October 12, cancel them now. The embassy will be closed to the public for…
This is no longer simply a debate about undocumented migration. In reality, it never was. What began with vigilante groups confronting people they believed to be foreign nationals, demanding identity documents and attempting to exclude migrants from workplaces, clinics and…
A man who once commanded some of South Africa’s most powerful law enforcement operations is sitting in a prison cell in Pretoria, fighting to get out on bail. Shadrack Sibiya, the suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner, returns to the Randburg…
