In a dramatic interview with South African television, the former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, accused the country’s military of conducting a coup d’etat to remove him from office in November and illegally install current President Emmerson Mnangagwa. “I never thought he whom I had nurtured and brought into government and…
Attacks on South African journalists covering violent clashes this week – along with police interference with their work – have met with condemnation from the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef). On Monday, protests in Coligny followed a court decision to grant bail to two farmers accused of killing a…
Black Like Me founder and Democratic Alliance’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate, Herman Mashaba, has been highly criticized for his comments on leadership. “It is interesting that you can expect poor people to be the leaders. That is looking for trouble, in any given situation,” Mashaba said during an interview with SABC…