Having dominated South Africa’s political landscape for 30 years, the ANC now faces having to do a deal with its rivals.
- Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
South Africa’s ANC party has dominated government for 30 years, but it looks like it is about to be thrown out.
The relationship between Pretoria and Moscow was forged in the apartheid era with the then Soviet Union giving support to banned ANC fighters.
As Zimbabwe’s financial situation worsens, the government pins its hopes on borrowing more money.
Is a perfect storm brewing in the African nation?
South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria … the story seems to be the same.
Mugabe is gone, but chaos reigns.
It’s no wonder that he is many people’s African prime minister of 2018. But will he make it through 2019?
Nigeria’s first serious female presidential candidate could soon make her mark. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe remains in the economic doldrums.
Times are changing – will the 2020s be Africa’s decade?
The time for words is over – the world wants to see positive action if it is going to engage and invest.
The UK’s plans for post-Brexit trade and investment in Africa are pint-sized by the standards of other major players.
The government has won another term but voters have been clear that they want fresh faces and new ideas.
As Emmerson Mnangagwa blames Grace Mugabe for a failed bombing at a rally, his rivals try to find a way to close the gap.
Many African elections are less than ideal. But is the rest of the world really that much better?
Zimbabwe has high hopes for a post-Mugabe era, but it has some serious growing pains to deal with first.
Emmerson Mnangagwa has a struggle on his hands as president of Zimbabwe, but he doesn’t face much of a challenge from the opposition.
Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa need to sharpen their thinking and get to work.
South Africa’s likely next president must face down entrenched corruption, a stagnant economy, and a restive middle class.
With their cavalier power plays and gross economic negligence, the Mugabes squandered the goodwill of crucial backers.
The Commonwealth countries’ democratic failings take a back seat to British panic about impending irrelevance.
African democracies are embracing electronic voting far more confidently than the West.
With a nonagenarian president apparently still planning to run for re-election in 2018, Zimbabwe’s runners and riders are making themselves known.
The Singaporean model of ‘democracy’ is very much in vogue among sub-Saharan countries.
A new candidate to be the US assistant secretary of state for Africa has ideas that are both refreshing and worrying.
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