14+ hour, 22+ min ago   (914+ words) A confidential ANC report has laid bare the internal party weaknesses that led to chaos in the registration of candidates for the municipal elections and the omission of 51 mayoral candidates from the lists submitted to the Electoral Commission of South…...

14+ hour, 54+ min ago   (761+ words) The latest instalment in the turmoil engulfing the South African Police Service (SAPS) raises an ethical question beyond the personalities occupying senior positions: when a state lawyer advises a public official, to whom does that lawyer owe allegiance? It was…...

15+ hour, 50+ min ago   (534+ words) US president George W Bush, hardly a year in office, was in Florida on September 11 2001 listening attentively as elementary school pupils read from The Pet Goat, when Andrew Card, his chief of staff, quietly walked into the classroom and whispered…...

15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (821+ words) What do a DJ, a footballer, an actor, a podcaster, a controversial TV show presenter and a poet have in common? They are among a number of celebrities who have thrown their hats into the ring for the local government…...

15+ hour, 9+ min ago   (636+ words) How depressing to hear reports that pro-Palestinian protesters have returned to picket outside the stores of Cape Union Mart owner Philip Krawitz despite losing comprehensively in the Western Cape High Court on September 4 in a case Krawitz had brought as…...

15+ hour, 42+ min ago   (905+ words) Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube and the department’s director-general (DG), Mathanzima Mweli, are embroiled in a cold war as Mweli refuses to be subjected to a lifestyle audit by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This is the latest episode in…...

14+ hour, 22+ min ago   (1001+ words) Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi could emerge as the federation’s new general secretary this week, giving her control over the day-to-day running of the trade union movement and making her its chief political spokesperson. Although the post of president in Cosatu…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (956+ words) The Gauteng high court in Pretoria heard on Wednesday that renovations to the home of former defence and military veterans minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula began in 2004, a long time before she was appointed minister of defence. Mapisa-Nqakula appeared in court on…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (667+ words) Two of the three early childhood development (ECD) centres built as part of former Ekurhuleni executive mayor Mzwandile Masina’s “legacy projects” in 2019 have been abandoned after the city spent R57.4m to construct them. Poor management and late salary payments combined with…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (626+ words) Some parties in parliament say the “GN—U bloc” within the impeachment committee is hellbent on “railroading” them at every turn as they prepare for the impeachment inquiry against President Cyril Ramaphosa. The comes after GNU partners — the ANC, the…...