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More than a decade after 34 mineworkers were gunned down by police, their families are still fighting for justice and trade unions for better working conditions.
Don't panic over fees — give each rand a job: set horizons, use tax-efficient wrappers and accept only the risk needed to meet your investment goals with the money you have.
When there is nothing left to eat, Mnisi tells his children to drink water and have faith that God will provide. They couch‑surf neighbours for food while he takes odd jobs, and often accepts food as payment.
This lowly newspaperman is no sangoma or clairvoyant, but he can predict that the ANC manifesto will be a boring menu of same-old, same-old. It will be an updated Windows programme, but without any exciting new innovations. That is why the DA and other parties will steal a march on the ANC in November.
Many think cricket is unique. It’s not. All sports require players to respect their opponents.
The soccer boss’ Fifa Forward Enterprise died just a few days after it became public knowledge. But the controversial sell-off proposal may still sink his future as the president of Fifa.
With 48% of all tries scored from turnovers, trend-setting teams such as the Springboks and Bulls are investing in transition strategies.
Despite 2,200 soldiers being deployed to support the police at a cost of more than R800m, the police minister admits ‘we are not winning’ the war.
The All Blacks don’t need second invitations to make the most of them. They scored a second successive half-century of points to beat the Bulls 50-19 (halftime 24-0) at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.
People are choosing to have pets instead of kids, mostly because raising the latter is too expensive.
Subpoenas to appear before the Madlanga Commission trigger a sudden outbreak of conveniently timed illness. Really, it’s enough to make anyone sick.
This edition of the Weekend Wrap takes us inside Caryn Dolley’s new book, The Untouchables, which traces the long-running story of drug trafficking, policing and alleged political collusion now playing out before the Madlanga Commission. We also investigate South Africa’s sports funding crisis, the R5.6bn Prasa Siyangena scandal and the inside story of Eskom’s turnaround. Plus, we ask whether…
The Hillbrow Carnival, supported by various community groups, reclaimed public spaces for joy on a recent Saturday.
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SAA CEO Matshela Seshibe has been placed on special leave by the national carrier board, a dramatic turn of events given his platform of enforcing consequence management.
A protest on the streets of Melville on Friday, 14 August, was the latest outcry in response to a water crisis that residents say has become routine.
The Madlanga Commission has heard that former national public prosecutions boss Shamila Batohi wanted an investigation into whether her Gauteng counterpart, Andrew Chauke, was linked to organised crime accused Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala. Chauke was later the focus of an unrelated fitness-for-office inquiry, set up at Batohi’s insistence, which cleared him.
Banyana Banyana’s hopes of qualifying for a third-ever Fifa World Cup remain firmly alive after a 2-1 win over Nigeria in the first playoff round. The South Africans have now advanced to an intercontinental playoff phase, which begins in November. Even if they manage to qualify via this route, it is clear that Banyana Banyana need a massive overhaul.
NSFAS administrator Prof Hlengani Mathebula’s appointment has been suspended by the Pretoria High Court, which ordered the reinstatement of the board after the court cited “bizarre” conduct from Mathebula’s past at SARS and procedural flaws in Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela’s intervention.
The Madlanga Commission will lay criminal charges against ANC member and businessman Suliman Carrim after he repeatedly failed to appear and refused an independent medical assessment. The move ends months of wrangling over Carrim’s medical excuses. Evidence leader Adila Hassim says he may be in breach of the Commissions Act.
Apex ruling overturns order that gave companies another chance to preserve an “unlawfully” granted offshore exploration right.
In a country weary of inquiries without consequences, acclaim for the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Alleged Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System — the Madlanga Commission — is surprising.
In Lenasia South a 32‑year‑old mother of three from Mozambique says she sells chicken feet on the street – and sex to men – because she has no schooling, receives no child grants and her husband stopped supporting the family in 2019.
While building a human rights economy in Africa also requires transforming the international financial architecture and global economic governance, true and lasting change must come from within.
Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot who was kidnapped in Niger's capital Niamey in October last year, has been released and is in U.S. hands, according to the Christian organization Rideout worked for.
A Russian man has been convicted by a Moscow court of spying for Poland and sentenced to 23 years in a penal colony, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday.
Increasingly dragged into a war it did not choose, Saudi Arabia is building regional defensive alliances that it hopes will keep its enemies at bay and help it respond more robustly to attacks by Iran and its network of regional allies.
French authorities have evacuated 525 people from the village of Luglon after a wildfire broke out in the southwestern Landes region, not far from an area already devastated by major blazes this summer.
‘Written over several years,’ reader Judith Shopley writes at the end of her story about life in a small town, and all the food that salted and peppered her family’s days.
I finally had a short back and sides haircut again, Dad. But don’t worry, it will grow. And anyway, it’s Mom I want to chat to right now.
There are three trigger words right there — Mozambican, super-hot, and peri-peri. We asked for your fiery recipes. You sent them.
It’s Women’s Month now, not merely Day, and TGIFood readers have chosen their heroes in the world of food. We suggested a handful of women to stimulate debate, but you have cast the net much wider.
Former PIC board chairperson David Masondo explains the decisions he made and the need to protect the organisation that manages the accumulated wealth and future retirement security of millions of workers from future State Capture.
Improving disease surveillance is not simply a question of buying better software. A sophisticated digital platform cannot compensate for laboratories that lack capacity, health workers who are overstretched, weak reporting channels or data that cannot move between institutions.
The South African teaching fraternity faces numerous challenges, including shortages, an ageing cohort and burnout, but there are still ways to fix the problem.
Why Democratic Information Integrity is the next frontier of the feminist struggle.
In the New York City corner, we have Zohran Mamdani, and in Cape Town’s corner, we have Geordin Hill-Lewis. We judge how the two youthful mayors compare in terms of new housing, use of city land, rent stabilisation and transportation.
Long-ignored mining communities face endless institutional delays. When Parliament fails to deliver accountability, ordinary citizens organise and build their own democratic power.
Every year, billions of rands intended for clinics, roads and clean water vanish into a black hole of administrative compliance that delivers zero actual value to South African citizens.
‘Water mafias’ siphon public supply for profit. There is an urgent need for the enforcement of tracking, record-keeping and investing in permanent infrastructure.
Few questions matter more than what the long-term economic and social impacts of AI are, particularly for countries such as South Africa, which are a long way — in every sense — from the AI deus ex machina.
Recent developments at the Public Investment Corporation reveal how easily governance can become a performative exercise. Real institutional strength depends on unyielding transparency, independent judgement and public confidence.
An unfunded budget is not a misfortune that befell a municipality. It is a council voting to spend money it knows will not arrive. Last year, 116 councils did it. Seventy-seven had done it in every year of their term.
The revised draft must win back public trust after the embarrassing withdrawal of the policy earlier this year.
The action plan continues to treat water primarily as an engineering, management and service delivery issue rather than as a systemic national crisis driven by the interaction of failing institutions, financial instability, corruption, deteriorating infrastructure, pollution, degraded rivers, wetlands and catchments, climate change and deep social inequality.
The university needs to be transparent about the funding it receives from the fossil fuel industry and the aims of research projects.
Donald Trump frames his endeavours in physically transforming the city as making it ‘beautiful and safe’. But that’s not how it feels to those of us who live here.