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Faiez Jacobs

Faiez Jacobs is a governance reformer, former member of parliament and chief executive of The Transcendance Group. He advises on public-sector capability, economic transformation and strategic resilience in South Africa and the region

JP Smith, the DA and Cape Town’s criminal underworld: The Black Books, the R8 billion tender shadow and why the Madlanga commission must come to Cape Town

South Africa cannot allow Cape Town’s postcard image to hide its political underbelly

South Africans should not view the US-Israel-Iran war as a distant Middle Eastern crisis with unfortunate consequences for oil prices. Photo:youngrobv

The Iran War is Africa’s warning: Build sovereignty or be ruled by other people’s power

A country that exports minerals but imports industrial dependence is not sovereign in any deep sense. A country that sits on energy resources but cannot convert them into stable…

A safer world: The 62nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) provided a platform for three days of intensive debates on the world’s most pressing
security challenges. Photo: MSC

Munich’s new world order message to South Africa

The 62nd Munich Security Conference provided a platform for three days of intensive debates on the world’s most pressing security challenges.

The NHI is a constitutional Imperative for universal healthcare

The National Health Insurance scheme can work, this is how

The NHI is a constitutional Imperative for universal healthcare

Sabbir Alam of Bangladesh in his tuckshop in Meqheleng near the Ficksburg border post. (File photo: Thulani Mbele/Sowetan/Gallo images)

Transforming spaza shops from trouble into township titans

To safeguard their future, we must address regulatory gaps, ownership patterns and issues such as extortion

We remember Zubeida Brey

It is with profound sadness that I, Faiez Jacobs, former ANC MP and Western Cape Provincial Secretary, extend my heartfelt condolences to the family, comrades, and friends of the…