US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
May 02, 2024 06:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As hundreds of New York police officers in riot gear were called in to clear away a student protest at Columbia University on Tuesday night, the university president Nemat Shafik was saying she had no choice but to take...
May 02, 2024 06:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Though a second Trump presidency is not a foregone conclusion, Nato members are gearing up to Trump-proof the organisation and reviewing their defence strategies. Natos concerns about Trumps re-election were heightened...
How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
Apr 30, 2024 02:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Political history scholar Jonny Steinbergs 2023 book Winnie Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africas most famous political figures Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela and their role...
Sudan’s civil war is rooted in its historical favouritism of Arab and Islamic identity
Apr 27, 2024 06:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The current civil war in Sudan goes beyond a simple power struggle between two generals. It reflects a deep-rooted crisis within the countrys governing structure thats been present since it gained independence from the...
South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study
Apr 26, 2024 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...
Apr 26, 2024 01:33 am UTC| Politics
Polls have consistently shown that the incumbent mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, appears to be on track to win a third term in office at the upcoming mayoral elections on May 2. One poll we commissioned as part of our...
The politics stopping the UK from opening a youth mobility scheme with Europe
Apr 26, 2024 01:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Earlier this week, it seemed possible that young people in the UK might soon be able to travel freely to work and live in Europe again. The European Commission laid out proposals to open mobility to millions of 18- to...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects