The Political Desk

Bongani Bingwa speaks to Ferial Haffajee, Associate Editor at Daily Maverick, about the state of Johannesburg’s ward system and whether it is still working as intended. The discussion examines growing concerns around local governance in the city, questioning whether ward councill ...  Show more

Bongani Bingwa speaks to Marrianne Merten, Associate Editor at Daily Maverick, about the tough questions emerging from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2026 State of the Nation Address. In a sharply argued opinion piece, Merten questions whether the President’s strong rhetoric on crim ...  Show more

  Clement Manyathela speaks to Prof. Dirk Kotze, Professor of Political Science at UNISA about the leadership of one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century Adolf Hitler who was the leader of the Nazi Party and initiated the Second World War.See omnystudi ...  Show more

Published 100 years ago in 1925, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was one of the most consequential books of the 20th century. It laid out Hitler's political ideology and future aspirations, as well as making the Nazi leader a lot of money. In more recent times, Mein Kampf has continued ...  Show more

Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyingly seized power in Germany. Now, Hitler’s vile ambitions have turned to Czechoslovakia. On the 12th of September 1938 at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, he rabidly defended the suppo ...  Show more

Richard Evans, author of the acclaimed The Third Reich Trilogy and over two dozen other volumes on modern Europe, is our preeminent scholar of Nazi Germany. Having spent half a century searching for the truths behind one of the most horrifying episodes in human history, in Hitler ...  Show more