Setumo Stone

Politics

Mathews Phosa proposes direct presidential elections to combat ‘crisis of trust’

12th November 2025

Senior South African business and political figure Mathews Phosa has issued a stark warning that the nation is “sitting on a powder...

Politics

SACP wields truth as scalpel, exposes Trump’s ‘white genocide’ propaganda

12th November 2025

In the turbulent arena of international discourse, where narratives are wielded as strategic weapons, a recent statement from the SACP cuts a...

Politics

SA’s communists decry ‘Same aGAIN’ economic plan as inequality festers

11th November 2025

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has launched a searing critique of the government’s proposed new economic framework, labelling it the “Same...

News

Khomotso Phahlane gets his payday, silences critics with a court gavel

10th November 2025

Former top cop Lt-Gen Khomotso Phahlane sued the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) for R350 000 and won, again. Popcru...

Politics

Mayor appeals to Ramaphosa for SIU probe amid corruption allegations

10th November 2025

The embattled Emfuleni Local Municipality has formally requested President Cyril Ramaphosa to deploy the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe allegations of...

News

How Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni snubbed the ‘Big Five’ cartel

9th November 2025

Taxi tycoon Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni has demonstrated that he is not an average Joe when he ended his bromance with the late...

Politics

MK Party whips call out Makhubele’s R1.8m mystery deal and “spousal” favouritism

9th November 2025

MK Party chief whip Colleen Makhubele allegedly pushed a R1.8-million contract with the party for a company linked to her “spouse” and...

Politics

The DA’s BEE billboard a signpost to coalition danger

6th November 2025

The unveiling of a DA billboard on Johannesburg’s N1 highway — proclaiming “BEE made ANC elites rich and left SA poor”— is...

Opinion

Justice or just show? The high court’s bail denial in Matlala case

4th November 2025

Last Monday, in a judgment that reads like a masterclass in legal gymnastics, the Johannesburg High Court of South Africa’s Gauteng Division—presided...

Columns

How Cyril Ramaphosa pitched for Swiss investment amid domestic economic strains

4th November 2025

President Cyril Ramaphosa used an address to the Swiss parliament in Bern on Tuesday to make a robust case for Switzerland as...