The world is changing fast and to keep up you need local knowledge with global context.
Chris Steyn 
A People’s Summit is being held in November this year (2023) to draw up a Charter that will demand pledges of change from parties for 2024.
Amidst a surge in coups across Africa, Gabon becomes the latest victim of “gun-barrel governance”.
Even the dead in South Africa cannot escape the culture of corruption in the country as bodies are piling up at 136 State mortuaries.
The Investigating Directorate (ID) set by President Ramaphosa four years ago has done “nothing”. That is the charge by Glynnis Breytenbach
Criminal intent and socio-economic desperation rather than racial hatred are behind many farm attacks in South Africa.
Residents of Swellendam, Suurbraak and Barrydale in the Overstrand have signed a petition to stop another march on the municipal head office.
Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya, head of HAWKS, neither confirms nor denies a vehicle’s existence allegedly linked to his crime investigation unit.
BRICS has taken a “dangerous political direction” with the admittance of new members like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commander Dmitry Utkin were apparently on the passenger manifesto of a private plane that crashed north of Moscow yesterday
Zimbabwe is going to the polls today (August 23) amid fears that the “securitised” State will hijack the election – despite weak opposition.