South Africa’s standing in the index is cause for concern. It has moved from stable in 2006 to warning in 2021 . This clearly indicates a much higher level of political risk in the country.

When counting just public schools, the Department of Education’s School Realities Education Management Information Systems publication from 2009 shows South Africa had 11.8 million learners in ...

South Africa: The Children of Paradise, Fergal Keane's documentary series with Milton Nkosi, is available on BBC Sounds and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from Monday 4 December. Click here to listen .

South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.

The Marikana massacre of 2012 triggered strikes across South Africa and political realignment. But could this, and the formation of the United Front to rival the ANC, have long-term significance?

Political violence, including killings, in South Africa predominantly targets ANC members, and intensifies in the run-up to elections and conference ...

In South Africa there is a dynamic political culture with, in recent years, well-organized forms of resistance in shack settlements, on the mines, on university campuses, and in parliament.

As South Africa's political establishment begins to crack—leading colleagues of Zuma have already begun backing Gordhan rather than the president—and columnists describe Africa's most ...

South African Institute of Race Relations CEO Frans Cronje and Vukasin Petrovic, director of Sub-Saharan Africa programs at Freedom House, discuss the… ...

But South Africa's democracy does offer the possibility of change. That is why next year's elections could be the most consequential since those first non-racial polls 30 years ago.