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Pretoria has offered to mediate to try to end the war between Hamas and Israel and which has killed well over 1,000 people on both sides in just two days.

‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Scenarios for South Africa’s Uncertain Future’ unpacks realities of collapse and promise of restoration.

That South African political parties across the spectrum were quick to venerate the politician and Zulu prince Mangosutho Buthelezi, who died last week, demonstrates that the country is still attached to Bantustan ideology.

We look back on this day in world and South African history, remembering the people and events that shaped the world we live in today.

In 2017, Pravin Gordhan urged South Africa to ‘join the dots’ between corruption and the Zuma administration. John Matisonn joins those dots in this eight-part series.

Ireland’s Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin advised SA politicians to put their egos aside and put any coalition government before their parties.

It is a great pleasure to join you this afternoon and to deliver the inaugural Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson lecture.

In early 1985, John Hume, the future co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the first person to receive NDI’s Democracy Award, visited Washington, D.C., to build bipartisan support for the politics of peace in Northern Ireland. Known as a civil rights leader in the 1960s from the Bogside in Derry, he had become the leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic Labor Party (SDLP) and was by then an elected member of both the British and European parliaments. 

Ramaphosa's 'peace-keeping mission' may have been a circus, but at least Wally Rhoode was kept locked up and out of harm's way

Roelf Meyer discusses SA's peace efforts in Ukraine, and advocates for a revised model of Black Economic Empowerment.