South Africa’s contraceptive shortage is not a supply chain accident. It is the predictable outcome of a structural vulnerability that civil society has been flagging for years, and a governance failure that deserves far more scrutiny than it is currently receiving. Since early 2026, women across the country have struggled
Three years ago, Samsung became the cautionary tale every corporate IT department cited when explaining why employees couldn’t use ChatGPT. In March 2023, engineers at the South Korean tech giant uploaded proprietary source code and confidential meeting notes into the public version of the chatbot. The data left Samsung’s perimeter
Three years ago, Samsung became the cautionary tale every corporate IT department cited when explaining why employees couldn’t use ChatGPT. In March 2023, engineers at the South Korean tech giant uploaded proprietary source code and confidential meeting notes into the public version of the chatbot. The data left Samsung’s perimeter
Five days from now, South Africa faces a moment of reckoning, not because the government has declared a crisis, but precisely because it insists it hasn’t. The planned demonstrations of 30 June, anchored in the anti-immigration movement March and March’s ultimatum for undocumented foreigners to leave the country, have triggered
Africa’s leaders are increasingly united around a simple but transformative idea: the continent can no longer afford to remain merely a supplier of raw materials to the rest of the world. At the 5th African Natural Resources and Energy Investment Summit (AFNIS 2026) in Abuja, policymakers, investors and industry leaders
Speaking at a foreign policy forum in Moscow, the Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the global security system was “eroding.” Russia’s claim that nuclear weapons remain the only real barrier against global war is designed to sound blunt, even pragmatic. In one sense, it reflects an old strategic truth:
The amendment that ends the ballot On 18 June 2026, Zimbabwe’s National Assembly passed the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill, with 216 lawmakers voting in favour, comfortably clearing the 187-vote threshold needed for a two-thirds majority. The bill’s headline effect is structural: it would postpone elections due in
Zamikhaya Maseti The looming labour dispute between BAIC, the Chinese automotive manufacturer, and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is undoubtedly unsettling. It comes at a time when South Africa’s economy is struggling to attain higher levels of growth, investment and employment creation. Yet the significance of
When the full text of the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran was released, analysts expecting the language of a balanced peace agreement found something rather different. What the document describes, point by point, is a near-total concession by the world’s most powerful military to a
In the past eighteen months, thirteen prospecting applications have been submitted to the Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources across a 170-kilometre stretch of KwaZulu-Natal’s South Coast, eleven of them including lithium, one of the minerals most critical to the global energy transition. The trigger is SA Lithium’s Highbury Mine