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’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.

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 .

Such a renewal would require an interrogation of South Africa’s contemporary crisis of “ideas” where political debate often lacks theoretical depth, and where political discourse frequently ...

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.