The “Constitutional Coup” – less violent, equally damaging 

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Nearly a decade ago, in 2017, Africa in Fact ran a piece entitled “Africa’s presidents and the term-limit controversy”. It described a strategy that incumbent leaders were using to cling to office beyond the limits imposed on them by their respective constitutions. As it typically emerged from a constitutional change designed to give a sitting head of something in

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News Focus: fight for property rights continues

Dispatches News

The five-day hearing by the Western Cape High Court on the challenge brought by the IRR Legal, the DA, and AfriForum against the Expropriation Act ended with a postponement on Friday to a date later in the year.

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What’s to learn from racism in America?

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Racism has become an increasingly salient issue around the world.

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A sojourn among the journos

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This is the second time in successive weeks that I have considered the life and times of journalists. I worry.

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Litigation financing needs more transparency

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The ongoing legal battle between financier Errol Elsdon and Nkosana Makate over the funding of the “Please Call Me” litigation raises crucial questions about the state of litigation financing in South Africa.

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News Focus: property rights and women

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They may have paid for, occupied, and maintained properties for years, but many of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable women remain exposed to the administrative failure that is the government’s longstanding and unaddressed title-deed backlog.

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Date of local government election announced! Start the campaign clock

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Today’s Daily Friend Live features Nicholas Lorimer and Ricardo Teixeira. They discuss the looming local government elections, the MK Party’s latest power struggle, and the arrest of Julius Mkhwanazi. https://youtube.com/live/LRSafIkjuDE?feature=share

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Whose family, whose values?

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An anti-gay, anti-sex-ed conference supported by the American religious right is coming to Cape Town next year. It will be as awful as you’d imagine.

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Let’s get over our Africa fatigue and be courageous Africans instead

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A week ago today, I flew to Accra, capital of Ghana, with colleague Hermann Pretorius, head of Strategic Communications at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), to attend Atlas Network’s 2026 Africa Liberty Forum, and present a case study of