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WebNigeria's Election: Are We Watching the Wrong People?
2+ hour ago (501+ words) – August 30, 2026 As Nigeria heads towards its presidential election early next year, we already know where we’re supposed to look. The headlines will focus on President Bola Tinubu and the challengers hoping to unseat him. We’ll analyse rallies, defections, opinion polls,…...
Dispatch from Washington
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (663+ words) – August 29, 2026 The US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined the term "laboratories of democracy" in a dissent he filed in 1932. He wrote: "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if…...
Our Concept of Public Office Has Been Corrupted
2+ hour ago (1153+ words) – August 30, 2026 Many things plague the South African state. Perhaps worst of all is what we call corruption, in which state functionaries set the tone. For 429 days from 2018 to 2022, we were spectators of the Zondo Commission’s corruption theatre. It concluded with…...
How to Save South Africa's Cities
17+ hour, 55+ min ago (1146+ words) – August 29, 2026 Municipalities across South Africa are in a bad way. With local government elections approaching in November, what can be done to restore South Africa’s failing cities? How can organised communities and civil society help to improve local governance? This…...
Voters Back a DA Motion of No Confidence in Ramaphosa
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (155+ words) – August 26, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. Enclavisation continues apace as a large majority of…...
Police Failure to Track Political Killings Undermines Efforts to
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (599+ words) – August 26, 2026 The South African Police Service (SAPS) cannot provide Parliament with figures on the number of political killings in recent years, raising questions about the state’s ability to understand and effectively counter the phenomenon. In response to a parliamentary question…...
The Constitutional Court Wrecked South Africa's Economy
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (38+ words) The Common Sense The Constitutional Court Wrecked South Africa's Economy In this clip from Talking Sense the panel discusses the hammer blow made by the Constitutional Court against South Africa's economy....
DA Most Popular Party Among Women, ANC Among Men
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (386+ words) – August 26, 2026 The most popular party among South African women is the Democratic Alliance (DA), while the most popular party among South African men is the African National Congress (ANC). The DA had the support of 30% of women. Among men the…...
ANC Manifesto: “Give Us Another Chance, We’ll Get It Right This
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (750+ words) – August 25, 2026 Faced with a local government system that is universally acknowledged to be failing, the African National Congress (ANC) is approaching the upcoming elections with an appeal attempting to combine humility with hubris. At its manifesto launch in Riverside, Diepsloot…...
The Common Sense’s Diary
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (535+ words) – August 25, 2026 That is spot-on and the campaigns against both Tony Leon and now more recently Mark Burke are examples (more on the latter later this week). The ANC and EFF, for example, are now running material that claim Leon and…...