March 28
South Africa: South Africa's Energy Crisis Is Driving a 'Solar Boom', but There's a Downside
The privately-led quintupling of rooftop solar in 2 years takes some pressure off the grid but, without planning, risks deepening energy apartheid. Read more »
February 15
South Africa: The Legend of Johannesburg - From Afrophobia to Acts of Kindness
Zukiswa Wanner pays homage to a city where the contradictions of violence and Ubuntu seem more marked than perhaps anywhere else. Read more »
December 07, 2023
South Africa: What Went Wrong With South Africa's Once Pioneering Just Transition Plan?
Two years into the world's first Just Energy Transition Partnership, some fear it will amount to ''green structural adjustment''. Read more »
November 16, 2023
Africa: The Loud Silence Around Africa's Complicity in the Slave Trade
When will we have an honest conversation about Africa's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade? Read more »
October 11, 2023
South Africa: Informal Retailers - a Missed Opportunity for Tackling Food Insecurity in South Africa's Covid-19 Response
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
September 20, 2023
South Africa: 'Urban Politics' in Rural Libode, South Africa - Residents Protest Extended Power Outages
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
August 31, 2023
Africa: Brics and Africa - New Beginning or False Dawn?
With 40 countries on the waiting list, Egypt and Ethiopia's entry into BRICS marks another notch for Beijing's geopolitical expansion. Read more »
July 12, 2023
South Africa: The Calling of Bees - Healing and Hope After Covid-19
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
May 30, 2023
South Africa: The Two Defining Challenges Facing South Africa
Stagnation at home and fence-sitting abroad are costing the country dearly, and the costs are only rising. Read more »
April 24, 2023
South Africa: The Risk of Extreme Wildfires Around Cape Town Has Nearly Doubled
Our study suggests climate change has significantly increased the likelihood of extreme wildfires. But there are ways to mitigate the risks. Read more »
February 01, 2023
South Africa: Of Cobblers, Colonialism, and Choices
Growing up in South Africa, I was told my British colonial ancestors were a fundamentally decent lot. Researching a novel has taught me the opposite. Read more »
December 06, 2022
South Africa: Pandemic Policies in South Africa - a Model of Neocolonial State Capture
The huge Covid death toll - by far the worst in Africa - occurred not in spite of Western biomedical practices but because of them, argues a new book from the African Arguments… Read more »
October 26, 2022
South Africa: The ANC's Power Games Have Led It to a Make or Break Moment
As factional fighting dominates South Africa's ruling party, it is the public that pay the cost. Read more »
June 28, 2022
Southern Africa: 'Too Much Propaganda' - Zimbabwe's Pirates of the Airwaves Look to South Africa
The state-owned ZBC no longer has a monopoly, but that doesn't meanfree-to-air TV in Zimbabwe isany more diverse or varied. Read more »