2024 is a major election year. With Senegal (March) and South Africa (May) as some of Africa’s leading democracies going through elections in the first half of this year, this has triggered a reflection on democracy in Africa.

2024 is a major election year. With Senegal (March) and South Africa (May) as some of Africa’s leading democracies going through elections in the first half of this year, this has triggered a reflection on democracy in Africa.

South Africa urgently needs the reforms that will make neoliberalism obsolete here. But this won’t happen on its own. It needs all of us, in our own ways, to challenge austerity and the neoliberalism from which it emerges. By using our energy and passion, a better future still beckons.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to sign the NHI Bill into law after five years of fierce debate since it was introduced in parliament in 2019.

A Gauteng man who was shot and killed by police following the kidnapping and murder of an Ekurhuleni businessman was a wanted suspect with 29 pending cases against him while 17 others had been withdrawn.

A man that was out on bail for 29 cases of vehicle theft and hijacking was shot dead by the SAPS’s anti-kidnapping task team during a shootout on the N12, between Kliprivier and the Xavier off-ramp in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening.

A mother who killed her two children after allegedly finding out that her husband was continuously cheating on her and also not helping take care of the children has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars.

The five men accused of the murders of rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and his friend Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane have been denied bail.