August 2024
‘If I stand behind Mandela and he gets shot, I’ll take a bullet, too’
In the final years of apartheid in South Africa, a young doctor was asked to prepare for an assassination attempt on current and future presidents.
- Peter Friedland and Jill Margo
June 2024
Party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses 30-year majority
With more than 99 per cent of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC had received just over 40 per cent in parliamentary elections – well short of the majority it held.
- Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome
May 2024
Nelson Mandela’s party set to lose majority in seismic election
South African voters have watched the economy stagnate over the past decade, while unemployment and poverty have climbed and infrastructure has crumbled.
- Bhargav Acharya and Anait Miridzhanian
November 2023
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Far left is down the rabbit hole
How young social justice warriors got mixed up with an adherent of oppressive Sharia Law is a question worth pondering.
- Misha Zelinsky
June 2023
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Meeting Giorgia Meloni turned out to be quite a surprise
It’s perilously hard to make political predictions but as things stand the new Italian prime minister has the potential to become the European Union’s most significant leader.
- Alexander Downer
May 2023
Rugby Australia joins push to endorse Voice
Australia’s major football codes are putting rivalry aside to endorse the creation of the Voice to parliament.
- Zoe Samios
December 2021
Cathedral bells toll for South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero
Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate who had preached against the tyranny of the white minority, was revered by black and white South Africans alike as the nation’s moral conscience.
- Wendell Roelf
South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu dies
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate whose moral might permeated South African society during apartheid’s darkest hours and into the unchartered territory of new democracy, has died
November 2021
Former South African president FW de Klerk dies at 85
De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, whom he freed from jail, after helping negotiate South Africa’s transition out of apartheid.
- Reuters
June 2020
- Opinion
- Black Lives Matter
Why the Rhodes statue at Oxford must fall
The first Indigenous Australian to win a Rhodes Scholarship says the monument that glorifies an imperialist reactionary should be taken down to make an elite institution more accessible to people of colour.
- Rebecca Richards
March 2019
South Africa's President takes on unions
To reignite growth in a stagnating economy and lower unemployment that has hit 27 per cent, Cyril Ramaphosa may need to take on the movement he helped create.
- Antony Sguazzin