ANC STRONGHOLD SLIPS ANC fails to fill rural stadium for birthday bash — 5 things you need to know 7 min 1 By Nonkululeko Njilo
COALITION POLTICS Clear as mud — Inside the NFP’s high-stakes game in KwaZulu-Natal 5 min 3 By Greg Ardé
LABOUR POWER Can the workers of Mzansi find common cause, and what would it mean for SA’s politics? 6 min 2 By Stephen Grootes
FOREIGN POLICY SA political parties divided on US military action in Venezuela 9 min 4 By Victoria O'Regan
PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2025 Gold medal in blundering as Lesufi’s amaPanyaza police Gauteng’s wallet, not its streets 3 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
Wayne Duvenage Mashatile’s resilience rhetoric rings hollow under ANC’s leadership deficit 3 min 2 30 December 2025
ANALYSIS 2026: From founding ideals to patronage politics, the ANC is at a moment of reckoning 8 min 2 By Ferial Haffajee
BENDING THE FUTURE SA at a Rubicon: Crime, power and a high-stakes paddle into 2026 9 min 0 By Marianne Thamm
Terence McNamee An epic act of national self-harm: Letting South Africa’s ‘Rainbow Nation’ story die 18 min 6 26 December 2025
INTERVIEW ‘Who Really Killed Chris Hani?’ – book underscores global rogue spies and murky business nexus 6 min 1 By Caryn Dolley
DECEMBER BY-ELECTIONS Emphatic IFP win in rural KZN caps good week for party in wake of legislature chaos 4 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
Buti Manamela The National Democratic Revolution is the only idea that can rescue SA from its fragmented present 5 min 4 17 December 2025
Jeff Rudin Can the South African Communist Party’s history be an unwitting source of hope? 9 min 0 15 December 2025
BOOK EXCERPT Young friendship across the colour line in apartheid SA reshapes views about whites 7 min 0 By Kingsley Mamabolo
THE INTERVIEW From national power to rural party? ANC nearing its end, warns chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli 5 min 0 By Nonkululeko Njilo and Suné Payne
NGC 2025 Ramaphosa will lead the 2026 ANC local government election campaign as plot rumours fizzle 4 min 6 By Ferial Haffajee
DECEMBER BY-ELECTIONS ANC retains Ekurhuleni, Western Cape wards, but sheds support to Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA 6 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
