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Lester Kiewit
Lester Kiewit is a Reporter, Journalist, and Broadcaster.
Abdullah Ibrahim didn't want you to request ‘Mannenberg’
A poignant reflection on the life and legacy of jazz maestro Abdullah Ibrahim, delving into his complex personality, his resistance to being defined by 'Mannenberg', and his…
State to lease more land to emerging farmers
Land reform minister announces an intensified programme to allocate arable land to emerging farmers
The case for decriminalising personal drug use
Deputy Social Development Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu tells the UN that the war on drugs has failed and is suggesting other options to tackle addiction
Public protector clears Magashule, Joemat-Pettersson
Current ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has been cleared of allegations that he misled the Free State provincial legislature when he was premier of that province. It follows…
Cape quakes no concern for Koeberg
Last week’s tremor has anti-nuclear campaigners questioning the safety of Koeberg, although the nuclear facility said the plant is designed to sustain a magnitude-seven earthquake
Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’
The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase
ANC’s ‘moral crisis’ will foil W Cape hope
Former premier Ebrahim Rasool says voters will abandon the party until corruption is arrested
The young and the rentless: Inside Camps Bay’s ‘hijacked’ mansion
An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town
Hlophe says ‘assassination plot’ is a bid to sully his name
Allegations that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe planned to assassinate his deputy, Patricia Goliath, are leading to further instability on the Cape bench
Controversial oil reserves sale ‘corrupt’ and ‘dishonest’ court hears
The sale of South Africa’s crude oil reserves is now facing a criminal investigation by the Hawks
Clicks-bait: EFF MP’s new parole probe
Kenny Motsamai, a parolee who is also an EFF MP, could be sent back to jail if correctional services finds he violated his parole conditions
SA’s level best: Welcome to the new normal
It’s a lifestyle that South Africans will have to maintain as the country navigates an almost post-lockdown situation in which the coronavirus remains very alive and active
Level one loading: Almost back to normal
President Cyril Ramaphosa announces South Africa will move to level one of lockdown on September 20 after nearly six months of restrictions on movement, trade, learning and…
Mmusi Maimane doesn’t want DA’s political ‘superstars’
The leader of the new One South Africa Movement says his former party has set itself on a course away from multiracialism after its recent policy conference
EFF MPs to be investigated for disrupting parliamentary proceedings
Under the spotlight will be the Economic Freedom Fighters’ behaviour at the State of the Nation address and during the public enterprise department’s budget speech