SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEMOCRACY OP-ED Rhetoric and reality — Checking SADC’s compliance with its own Treaty 1 min 1 By Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
ANALYSIS A South Africa Party? Strange and difficult to comprehend while not impossible to imagine 4 min 0 By Stephen Grootes
ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS Authorities in KwaZulu-Natal on high alert ahead of polls 5 min 3 By Chris Makhaye
ISS TODAY OP-ED SA’s May elections unlikely to result in widespread public violence 4 min 0 By Lizette Lancaster, Godfrey Mulaudzi and Gareth Newham
ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS ANC praises KZN chairperson’s ‘microphone grab’, but Siboniso Duma will apologise to Zulu king 4 min 2 By Chris Makhaye
ANALYSIS Jacob Zuma, the violence-monger: Concern over unrest in 2024 polls 4 min 7 By Stephen Grootes
HORN OF AFRICA OP-ED African nations need to stand together to end conflict in Ethiopia 4 min 2 By Tegbaru Yared
AGE OF THE ASSASSIN With contract killings on the rise, demand for bodyguards increases in KwaZulu-Natal 7 min 4 By Chris Makhaye
GROUND LEVEL REPORT ‘Take the bribe or die’: Nongoma councillors threatened as political violence brings KZN town to its knees 5 min 0 By Chris Makhaye
COUNTDOWN TO 23 AUGUST Zimbabwean opposition party member stoned to death after court blow to Mnangagwa 4 min 0 By Frank Chikowore
ELECTORAL RED FLAGS OP-ED There cannot be any confidence in Zimbabwe’s upcoming polls ‒ and their quality matters enormously 8 min 0 By Tony Reeler and Ibbo Mandaza
TO THE POLLS OP-ED Kenyan elections — empower the youth instead of inciting violence 3 min 0 By Amy Oloo, Mohammed Ndifuna, Joy Muthoni and Richard Kasu
ISS TODAY ANALYSIS Chad’s political transition lags behind deadline, raising the risk of more turmoil 4 min 0 By Remadji Hoinathy for ISS TODAY
NORTHERN EXPOSURE OP-ED Zimbabwe’s new political party, Citizens Coalition for Change, sparks fear and violence from Zanu-PF 5 min 2 By Thandekile Moyo
2021 STATE OF OUR CITIES eThekwini metro (Part Three): In Durban, ‘People are being killed like flies... and it is the same crew doing the killings’ 11 min 5 By Des Erasmus
Prison Diaries Analysis Images of thugs burning the country are bad for South Africa – even worse for Zuma 6 min 18 By Stephen Grootes
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS Conflict resolution key for Europe-Africa relations to achieve peaceful partnerships 3 min 0 By Meressa K Dessu and Dawit Yohannes
ANALYSIS Power of the poll: October 27 local elections could be a political game-changer 4 min 7 By Stephen Grootes