Tag: political

The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) welcomes the ruling by South Africa's North Gauteng High Court ordering the Government to revoke its notice of withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

After narrowly escaping Fitch and Moody’s downgrades last week, South Africa is still on tenterhooks over S&P’s rating decision. But investors should beware of...

Along with inequality and unemployment, poverty is seen as South Africa’s biggest challenge with over half of South Africans living below the national poverty...

South Africans will not be surprised to learn from the 2016 Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report, published by the Fraser Institute, that their country has lost another 12 places on the economic freedom index, dropping from 93rd in 2013 to 105th in 2014 (the latest year for which comprehensive figures are available for the 159 countries analysed). They will nevertheless be distressed to learn that SA has lost 73 places on the index since 2000.

The "fall” of three more major metropolitan municipalities from the ANC to the DA has been hot news in South Africa lately.

On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) in...

In 1973 the trade union movement was both racially and regionally divided. It virtually excluded African workers, and in many cases unions were led...