More than anyone else, the term state capture has been associated with the Gupta brothers, who were claimed of having ...

KWAZULU-NATAL - Yet another delay in the long-running Jacob Zuma's corruption trial. It will now not go ahead on Monday. That ...

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula dismisses the feud between Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu as 'fiction'... The post ...

For the first time since the end of white minority rule in 1994, the ANC lost its outright majority in parliament. In the consequential poll on Wednesday, 29 May, 2024, the party slumped to 40.2% with ...

Fikile Mbalula believes Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu are still close and working on a common goal to destroy one ...

ANC's Fikile Mbalula labels the much-discussed rivalry between EFF leaders Malema and Shivambu as a 'fictional drama,' ...

In struggling democracies around the world, small cliques of politicians, business elites, and politicians with business ...

The DA found itself voting alongside South Africa's two biggest, and most populist, opposition parties - former President ...

Occasionally a reversal of state capture is sudden and revolutionary. In Estonia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a ...

Eddy Maloka, the South African historian, diplomat and academic, argues in his latest book the case for South Africa to forge a "second republic". What is meant by this is left undefined, but emerges ...

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...

While many have claimed the current Budget fracas is ‘good for democracy’, the opposite is almost certainly true. Former ...