Increasingly, Ms Zille earns grudging admiration from South Africans. It helps that she can laugh at herself: this year she ...

King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo says he won’t apologise after swearing at President Cyril Ramaphosa during an Economic Freedom Fighters rally.

South Africa has undergone a second transition, away from the ideals of a constitutional democracy, first into a gatekeeper state, and then increasingly into what academics call a ‘violent democracy’.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday night in Abuja, the former national deputy chairman of the ADC accused the David Mark-led leadership of unlawfully taking over the party and breaching its ...