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WATCH | Cyril Ramaphosa’s address on Phala Phala judgement

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation after the Constitutional Court judgement on Phala Phala. The presidency stated that Ramaphosa will address the nation following the...

Cyril Ramaphosa calls family meeting on Phala Phala

President Cyril Ramaphosa will, this evening, address the nation after the Constitutional Court judgement on Phala Phala. This was confirmed in a media statement issued...

Fikile Mbalula summons special ANC NEC meeting after Phala Phala judgment

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula has called a special national executive committee (NEC) meeting in the wake of the landmark Phala Phala judgment involving...

Speaker to initiate impeachment committee over Phala Phala

National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza confirmed on Monday that she is moving to comply with the Constitutional Court's judgment by beginning the process of...

Top African Bank execs exodus worrisome

Concerns are being raised about the exodus of top executives, high profile suspensions, and business liquidity at African Bank, a week after it pulled...

BEE remains a tick-box compliance exercise, not true empowerment

The financial sector is making slow and uneven progress when it comes to transformation, with gains in some areas overshadowed by challenges in others,...

Can Johannesburg become the country’s much-needed economic wake-up call?

Can the growing crisis around Johannesburg’s finances and revenue management finally become the moment that forces South Africa’s leadership to confront the true economic...

Nehawu accused of holding Mpumalanga hospitals ‘hostage’

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) has been placed at the centre of the battle for control inside Mpumalanga’s hospitals, with...

Hero cop recalls chills of dangling above crocodile-infested river

The police diver who stunned South Africans after being lowered from a helicopter into the crocodile-infested Komati River to retrieve a 500kg reptile believed...

Is it xenophobia? No, it’s the violent consequence of an absent...

On a warm October morning of 2021, four brothers, the youngest six years old, were on their way to school in Polokwane when armed...