Phala Phala is back from the dead. The Constitutional Court just revived an impeachment inquiry the ANC thought it had killed in 2022

GNU praise for Ramaphosa is growing, but policy rifts persist. The real test is delivery – on water, jobs and budgets – not applause in parliament.

Local government elections, a DA electoral conference, the all-important annual budget and global headwinds. Here’s your political year ahead

The much-loathed VAT hike may be gone, but tensions in the government of national unity may yet torpedo the coalition

What precipitated the party’s climbdown on the VAT issue?

The ANC and DA have begrudgingly agreed to further talks on the GNU. But tensions between the two parties are running high

No-one wants the DA to leave the GNU. But the ANC has broken trust with its coalition partner

The unity government looked like an opportunity to reshape South Africa’s economy. After the budget debacle, it looks all but dead

South Africa faces devastating consequences if its budget fails again. Critics want a US-like Doge to slash bureaucracy.

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party remains the great unknown in South African politics. Questions persist over whether it is merely a personality cult, what it really stands…

If you’d listened to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s opening of parliament address in Cape Town’s City Hall on July 18 and thought you’d heard it before, you wouldn’t be entirely…

The exhilarating early days of a new relationship are not only being experienced by the government of national unity (GNU); the positive afterglow is also boosting South Africa’s…