The call for Africa to have an agricultural revolution to solve its food security (Leaders, May 10) is timely. But need it be like the green revolution in Asia? That used irrigation, fertilizers, pesticides and hybrid seed varieties to transform yields,...

THE future of the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), better known as the Scorpions, South Africa’s special unit fighting organised crime and corruption, has looked bleak since December. It was then, at a crucial once-in-five-years party...

A shipment of weapons from China destined for Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe is an obvious cause for the West to denounce Beijing’s involvement in Africa. But Western business and political leaders have already been watching China’s re-engagement with...

SOUTH African police must shoot to kill and ignore regulations in the battle against one of the worst rates of violent crime in the world, a government minister says. “You must kill the bastards (criminals) if they threaten you or the community....

After months of requests for an interview with Robert Mugabe and weeks of waiting in Harare, my patience finally paid off on December 21 last year. I was about to return empty-handed to Johannesburg when the long-silent telephone in my room at York...

The new prices in the small, tatty shop went up a few weeks ago, scrawled on scraps of blue cardboard beneath the broken plastic clock. Some villagers stared in silent shock. Others wanted to know why the price of everything had increased. The shop...