South Africa’s 32-year democratic ‘audit’ suggests a nation stuck in stagnation, where freedom has been narrowly defined as liberation from apartheid rather than the fuller promise of liberty and self-realisation. Returning to the founding vision of 1912 – rooted in economic self-reliance and ‘freedom to’ rather than only ‘freedom from’ – is essential to overcoming today’s...

United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of “funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism”, referring to Iran, saying that Beijing should help Washington in efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Diversity-led economic growth, diversity-led democracy building, and diversity-led nation building are essential to overcome South Africa’s multiple and complex economic, democratic and social crises.

The United States has destroyed six Iranian boats and shot down missiles and drones fired at US Navy and commercial vessels by Tehran’s forces, a top US admiral said on Monday.

The rumours of South Africa’s automotive manufacturing decline is actually documented fact. Our country is caught in the middle of a storm that is reshaping the global playing field.

Chornobyl was a defining rupture in the late Soviet system, revealing how bureaucratic secrecy, ideological control and propaganda converged to obscure disaster and devalue human life. This logic of state-driven denial and expendable populations persists today in Russia’s continued war in Ukraine, showing an unbroken thread of imperial ambition that comes at massive human cost.

Seasoned broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer brings you The Lead, News24’s definitive podcast for in-depth reporting.

If only our debates about race and business sparked insight instead of triggering a slanging match that ends up in court. Cue the latest wrangle involving the Legal Sector Charter Council, as well as Treasury’s new voluminous BEE rules that threaten to mire smaller black-owned businesses in a compliance bog.