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Crackdown on obdurate local councils
Officials will have to follow up on the auditor general’s reports or pay back the money
Mabe-linked firm’s tuk-tuk payday
The ANC spokesperson’s cousin scored R25m from Gauteng for three-wheelers that are awol
Gauteng audit follow-up heightens ANC split
More than 300 forensic audits have been handed over to the SIU with a view to recover hundreds of millions of rands lost to the government
Slice of life: My sister, my strength
‘Balungile was always protective of me and I got comfortable in the knowledge that she’d always be there for me’
Pandor: How to fix former black universities
The minister won’t babysit her sector but she intends to clamp down on council members who are there to enrich themselves
‘Teacher called my daughter a witch’
The family of an Eastern Cape primary school pupil has obtained a court order against a teacher they allege has been tormenting their child
Scandal-hit NGO opens three probes
Equal Education has started inquiries into sexual harassment claims as donors suspend grants
KwaZulu-Natal mayor arrested for alleged assassination plot
Richard Mbatha and two others appeared on charges of conspiracy to commit murder in the Estcourt magistrate’s court on Thursday
DA’s De Lille ousting not unanimous
De Lille and the DA are currently waging an ugly feud against one another in both the public domain and in court papers
Ramaphosa yields to wage concerns
Disagreements over the proposed amendments threaten to push back the implementation date of the minimum wage until after Parliament’s recess in July
Axe hangs over North West PEC
The committee’s defiance about the premier has put it on the chopping block at the NEC meeting
ANC fields a young face for land
Ronald Lamola has long been associated with land redistribution, which the party is now seizing on
Faction-riven and bleeding, NUM turns on itself
Rival groups in the union will go head to head at its elective conference
Mashinini steers away from Zuma
His key priority is to unite the deeply divided party structures in the province
Land hunger spreads across Cape
Fed up with living in squalor, people in backyard shacks pegged out plots of land illegally
How human brains became so big
Though most organisms thrive with small brains, or none at all, the human species opted for a different route.
HEALTH
It’s politics versus the people — ‘Mahumapelo killed my sister’
A month after she was wheeled out of a North West hospital on a barrow, Ntombizodwa Matthews met her end. Her family blames politics for her death.
AFRICA
Dodgy mine mogul’s new Zim play
Andrew Groves, with his history of suspect African mining deals, is back on the block, boasting of his links with the new president
Ebola vaccine put to the test in DRC
The latest outbreak is in a city and next to the Congo River, factors that increase the risk of it spreading rapidly
Arsenal scores own goal over Rwanda link
The club’s new sleeve sponsor has an abysmal human rights record
Parliamentary hearing ‘too early’ for Mugabe
Lawmakers want to question Mugabe over his 2016 claim that Zimbabwe lost $15-billion in revenue because of corruption in the diamond sector
BUSINESS
Bizarre battles in Gupta rescue
The companies and the IDC are strange partners in court cases against the business rescue team
Muscular dollar awes the rest
South Africa is less likely to suffer but investors will look for the elusive factor — growth
Payment delays anger students
Nearly half of those who qualify for funding are affected but the financial aid scheme blames institutions for being tardy
Funding focus should be lower-cost urban housing
Increasing housing delivery to address the demand is unlikely to be achieved any time soon given low economic growth and fiscal consolidation
Smart thinking for fiscal balance
A mix of tax increases and expenditure cuts are essential for long-term growth
COMMENT & ANALYSIS
There’s more to racism than meets the eye
Thousands of black South Africans haven’t led the lives they wanted because of apartheid policies
Editorial: At every level the state fails citizens
‘We’re good at the annual hand-wringing about government’s wasteful ways. But what is not quantified is the number of people who are being failed’
Editorial: Cele, prioritise cash heists
‘Cash-in-transit heists seem to be a South African speciality. They are now happening at an average of one a day, according to some accounts’
Letters to the editor: May 25-31
Our readers write in about Doron Isaacs and Paul Kagame
Wake-up call for social justice sector
It’s time to look inward and admit that not all of us who fight the good fight are squeaky clean
We are looking inward: Equal Education
The social justice organisation says the sexual harassment allegations have been a wake-up call
Creators want immediate copyright reform
There is a current process to reform our country’s copyright law that could address some of our grievances and better enable local creative production.
The 1 000th cut was the deepest
The reaction to Ashwin Willemse’s walk-out on TV exposes the racial fault lines of outrage
Complaining is a kind of connectivity
‘One reader described this as the most boring column I had ever written. I hope to out-bore it soon, perhaps even with this account of its sequelae’
Identity by race does matter
Celebrating the first ‘black’ or ‘African’ woman to get a doctorate in philosophy raises critical issues
Burning varsities: Responding to fire
As by Fire’s hard look at the recent violence on campuses presents dire warnings and hope
FRIDAY
‘It was delightful as it was disconcerting’
‘There’s a part of my brain that finds emotional comfort in the lies and promises of the monarchy, religion and even bloody patriarchy,’ writes Milisuthando Bongela
Sound shifting ‘janet.’ is still hot
Janet Jackson has deservedly been honoured for an album that changed the course of music for the past 25 years
Dr Malombo fought to keep his music in a genre of its own
There have been few innovative contributions that have sparked such polemical responses as the tussle over the categorisation of malombo as jazz, or just malombo.
The master of simplicity takes his final bow
Philip Tabane, aka Dr Malombo, was as important a philosopher as he was a musician
Song cycle unlocks cultural ties
Composer and free-form cultural thinker Thokozani Ndumiso Mhlambi plucks some chords with Alexandra Dodd in advance of his performance in Cape Town
Why is male rage sacrosanct?
Hurt people hurt people, but one trauma should never justify another. Men are supposed to be understood; the rest of us must simply understand
M.I.A.’s collage clarifies the cause
Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A. piece together old and new visuals to piece together a collage of the experiences that developed the artist.
Alade sets bush festival on fire
Bushfire is just one of the festivals burning up Africa this month
Breakfast to end the blushing uneasy
The Lonely Hearts Club,located where the cherished La Luna once was, serves Zaza Hlalethwa a needed hearty breakfast
SPORT
Reds vs Real: The key battles
Where this weekend’s Liverpool-Madrid Champions League final in Ukraine will be won and lost
Senegal set to roar again?
The Lions of Teranga are readying themselves to bring more World Cup joy to the country
Rugby ruckus: ‘People are scared’
Worried about losing their jobs, many in the sport are reluctant to comment on its toxic culture.
