Opinion

Beleaguered British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attempt a reset on Monday, as he faces a growing threat to his leadership following disastrous local and regional polls.

The Phala Phala judgment, eventually handed down by the Constitutional Court of South Africa on Friday, 8 May 2026, was certainly worth the more than 500 days or 18 months of torturous waiting.

The judgment touches on all the important constitutional buttons of democracy, executive accountability, constitutional supremacy, equality before the law, and the rule of law.

There will be countless commentary made in respect of all these important angles. In this article, I deal with the issue from the point of view of what it means for democracy itself, writes advocate Dali Mpofu SC.

Donald Trump is poised to be the first US president to visit China in almost a decade, but an uneasy trade truce and tensions over Iran and Taiwan loom over his trip next week.

The World Health Organization has emphasised that the public risk is low and believes that the Andes hantavirus is not like Covid-19, which was an entirely new virus when it emerged and started a pandemic.