André Marinus de Ruyter is a South African businessman who in December 2019 was appointed CEO of Eskom, South Africa’s largest state-owned electricity com...
Scheduled power cuts, commonly known as load-shedding , have threatened the political and economic stability of South Africa since 2008. The state-owned power u...
Introduction: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government” (Jefferson 1809). Th...
In August of 2022, an arbitration council voted in favor of the European Union (EU) over the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with regards to the ...
The identification and spread of the newest SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, by South African scientists has brought with it a host of medical, economic, and politi...
Introduction: Robert Michels, a German sociologist with renowned political distinction, first put forth the idea of ‘The Iron Law of the Oligarchy’ in academic ...
The recent physical assault of French music producer Michel Zecler makes one thing clear: police brutality is a transnational issue. This year, incidents of pol...
When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we h...
Written by Tyler Jager Introduction and Background Many nation-states are guilty of an “original sin” of a sort: a case in which the state was complicit in, or ...
South Africa’s Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, endearingly called Mama Winnie and “Mother of the Nation,” passed away in early April. A funeral service was held on A...
