South Africa enters a pivotal political year this week as 2026 begins — a year in which the country will hold local government elections.

South Africa’s political and economic landscape shifted significantly after the 2024 national elections. The ruling ANC’s dramatic loss of support resulted in a government of national unity – a ...

President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order on Friday, Feb. 7, but the latest had little to do with the United States. Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country ...

Bradley Devlin is politics editor for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Bradley. I wrote a piece for The Daily Signal on Aug. 2 highlighting new findings from the State Department’s Bureau of ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg. By Edward Wong and John Eligon ...

During the festive season peaks in December, millions of South African workers in big and mid-sized urban areas “go home” to spend time in rural labour reserves where they were born. This mass ...