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When the state starts protecting power instead of principle
What Parliament was told on Wednesday about the Phala Phala scandal should trouble every South African who still believes constitutional democracy depends on the...
Ten-year jail term for Northern Cape drug baron
A 57-year-old man believed to be the main player behind the scourge of drugs in Northern Cape's Namakwa region has been sentenced to...
SA needs to respect informal economy
When South Africans speak about the economy, the conversation usually centres around big corporations, the JSE, investment summits, and political promises about job creation....
Hawks arrest three for alleged R26m Covid-19 TERS fraud
The Hawks are not backing down in their pursuit of fraudsters who swindled out millions from the government's Covid-19 Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS)...
Phala Phala: a storm in a tea cup
With the Cyril Ramaphosa impeachment saga unfolding, I want to state from the very beginning that this Phala Phala matter, as far as I’m...
E. coli found in Middelburg stream as sewage battle heads to...
Laboratory tests filed in the Mpumalanga High Court have allegedly detected dangerous levels of E. coli bacteria in a natural water stream at the...
Welcome move on Tolashe, but what about Phala Phala?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has finally bowed to what public outrage demanded: he has fired Minister of Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe. For that decisive...
Oversight is not ‘academic xenophobia’
South Africa’s universities occupy a special place in our democracy. They are centres of knowledge, innovation and debate, and they shape the minds that...
Police rescue KZN family kidnapped after RAF windfall
Police are appealing to Road Accident Fund (RAF) beneficiaries not to disclose their payouts or brag about the money.
This comes after police in KwaZulu-Natal...
Can Mali find a path out of prolonged conflict?
Since coordinated attacks launched on April 25, Mali's security situation has remained highly volatile, with armed groups intensifying assaults on military positions and key...
