The Thabo Mbeki Foundation responds to The Common Sense, arguing that South Africa’s decline since 2008 was deliberately manufactured by forces inside ...

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has ruled out a coalition with the Green Party after its members voted to classify Zionism as a form of racism. British Prime Minister and leader of the Labour ...

Agricultural experts warn that a strong El Niño could bring severe drought conditions to key farming regions, although high dam levels and favourable grain stocks leave South Africa better prepared ...

Helen Zille, the DA’s mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, tells Gabriel Makin that the city is not at the brink of the abyss but already over the edge, and that the DA will not stay in power at all ...

Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson is taking the Knoflokskraal land occupation to court after thousands of structures were ...

The ANC has won its legal battle against the IEC, allowing 181 previously excluded candidates to contest November’s municipal elections. The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of the African ...

The South African military will no longer be using the services of Cuban personnel to service its equipment. This is according to Rear Admiral James Matshimane, who told Parliament that an order to ...

He led the DA into the GNU and handed over to Hill-Lewis in April. How do his own party's voters rate him now? We have the answers, visualised just for you. New polling* from The Common Sense and the ...

Bheki Mahlobo, the economics editor of The Common Sense, joins Gabriel Makin to explain what the latest fixed investment figures say about South Africa. The fixed investment rate measures how much ...

Why Cape Town should not let NGO NIMBYs stop data-centre developments. Around the world, the demand for computer power is experiencing an exponential surge driven primarily by the new and growing ...