By Mphuthumi Ntabeni CAPE TOWN — When the Constitutional Court declared parts of the 1992 Births and Deaths Registration Act unconstitutional this September, the ruling seemed almost modest in its phrasing. Men may now
Why South Africa must take its currency cartels seriously By Mphuthumi Ntabeni When Standard Chartered signed a settlement with South Africa’s Competition Commission in November 2023, it admitted to something extraordinary, a
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni South African President Cyril Ramaphosa projects a genteel calm, a measured cadence born of his trade-union roots, boardroom prowess, and reputation as a consensus builder. Whenever he must make a
South Africa’s proposed National Dialogue is, at its core, an act of political triage. For the first time since the birth of democracy in 1994, the African National Congress lost its outright
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni | Political Review When the United States announced new trade restrictions on South African imports, tariffs it framed as retaliatory and rooted in a broader matrix of political grievance, it signalled
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni | Opinion For years, the international community has repeated the same tired refrain that the only path to peace in Palestine is through a Two-State Solution. Presidents come and go, summits