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As South Africa heads to its very important general elections next month, recent words from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signal a potential change in South Africa's approach to their military intervention in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Winds of Change As the security situation within the eastern DRC continues to deteriorate, DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has sought a...

Despite South Africa’s Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, stating on Monday that the Western Cape receives more resources than other Provinces, 47 murders were committed between 4am Saturday and 5am Monday. Civic rights groups allege the province’s Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) lacks essential equipment such as radios, relying on their personal cell phones and mobile data to communicate during call...

The African National Congress’s (ANC) spat with Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi, traditional Prime Minister of the Zulu nation continues, with the ANC today stripping Buthelezi of his power over water projects in KwaZulu-Natal.  What You Need to Know: At a commemoration event in mid March, the ANC’s KZN chairman, Duma Siboniso, dismissed royal protocol by removing the microphone from Reverend Buthelezi as...

The small landlocked Kingdom of Lesotho has in recent years struggled with a resurgence of violence linked to ‘music gangs’ and illegal miners as well as violence enacted upon the rural population by an ever-paranoid security sector. Guns and Paranoia in Lesotho: Bordering South Africa’s Kwazulu-Natal Province to the east and the Province of the Free State to the North,...

What You Need to Know: The Electoral Court of South Africa has today announced their ruling that uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party candidate and former President Jacob Zuma, is able to run as an MK parliamentary candidate. Despite the Court not yet releasing their judgment due to the urgent nature of the ruling, the announcement comes as somewhat of a shock...