Gabriele Steinhauser is The Wall Street Journal’s Southeast Asia bureau chief. Before that, she covered sub-Saharan Africa ...

In a surprising development that signals a thaw in diplomatic tensions, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump held direct talks on April 24, agreeing to work together ...

There’s a global trend of democratic institutions and constitutional checks on power being undermined and fundamentally called into question that South Africa is not immune to.

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party ("MK Party") strongly denounces the ANC Government's attempt to spin its humiliating backtrack on the proposed VAT increase as some kind of noble act. This was never about ...

Predicting the next pope can be a notoriously secretive and unpredictable exercise. An old Italian saying even ...

While the government's decision to scrap a VAT increase seems compassionate, experts warn it merely obscures the deeper ...

The finance minister has warned that spending cuts or a rise in other taxes could follow.

President Donald Trump’s partisans in Congress, protective of their plush offices and their $174,000 public paychecks, dare ...

Tax experts usually refer to the three Es in taxes – equity, efficiency and ease of administration. A VAT increase, done ...

Pope Francis’ death fires the gun on what many see as a battle for the soul of the church – pitting those who want to ...

The names of the "papabili," or likely papal candidates, have been circulating in the media for some time amid Pope Francis's ...

When Jessica Yeroshalmi started her political science degree at Baruch College in New York six years ago, she was surprised to learn that some students in her classes had no idea there were Jews with ...