The hurrah is done, the dust has begun to settle. The local government elections of South Africa – along with the July riots of 2021

Three weeks ago this column suggested that rich countries would do a ‘decarbonisation’ deal with South Africa and then pull that deal like a rabbit

The people have spoken – or, to be more accurate, 12 million of the 40 million or so South Africans eligible to vote have spoken.

A senior UN environmental official warned that ‘governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control’.

I can’t recall ever seeing the term ‘hyper-local parties’ before this week, and perhaps that’s because local politics in South Africa has never been quite

The local government election at the beginning of this week could possibly be called what Americans describe as a ‘realigning’ election. It is the first

Will the ANC’s defeat in this week’s polls shock the party into reform? We share outgoing IRR CEO Frans Cronje’s view that it won’t. The

I do not, on principle, engage with online comments on my work. Nothing personal, but I can’t respond to everything, and neither can I justify

What should be top of the agenda at next week’s 9th Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control won’t be on

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 30th October 1888 – The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to