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Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Fikile has a daring plan for taxis

The transport minister presented to the ANC’s top body a proposal to establish a bank for taxi operators and to subsidise the industry

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
6 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
VOETSEKANC

ANC still at odds over how to tackle leaders facing serious graft allegations

The ANC’s top six has been mandated to work closely with its integrity committee to tackle claims of corruption against senior party members

  • Paddy Harper
  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
6 min read
Comrades in arms: (from left) Stanley Mathabatha, Florence Radzilani, Soviet Lekganyane, Bishop Israel Makamu and Daniel Msiza during the ANC’s Limpopo provincial conference in June 2018 in Polokwane. The party has reinstated Radzilani and Msiza, who are among the people implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank. (Photo: Antonio Muchave/Gallo Images/Sowetan)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

VBS looting haunts the ANC in Limpopo

The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections

  • Thanduxolo Jika
  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
7 min read
BURUNDI

Assassination pushes Burundi to the brink

Close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza, widely believed to be behind a spate of arbitrary arrests and killings of opposition members, gunned down.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
2 min read
Supporters of President Ismaïl Guelleh in 2010 in Djiobuti following Parliament’s approval of the constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a third term.
ABDOURAHMAN BOREH

Djibouti opposition leader vindicated

Weeks before President Ismaïl Guelleh stands for an unconstitutional fourth term, he has lost a “politically motivated” case against his former ally.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
4 min read

Ordinary people making the extraordinary happen

Ahead of the Finance for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Olympian Haile Gebrselassie reflects on what it takes to eliminate poverty.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
4 min read
South Africa needs to bolster its biosecurity to control the spread of disease in livestock and poultry.
GRACE MUGABE

Student union takes Mugabe to court

Zimbabwe students union takes President Robert Mugabe to court over the awarding of a controversial doctorate of philosophy degree to Grace Mugabe.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
5 min read
PORNOGRAPHY

Ten things about porn in the USA

We bring you 10 things you may or may not have known about the porn industry in the US.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
2 min read
Malema to gift houses in EFF Mpumalanga opening
ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS

Ten things about berets

With his usual flair for style, Julius Malema has dressed the active members of his new political party, Economic Freedom Fighters, in red berets.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
2 min read
A wide-range of topics were touched on at the session titled ‘Fact & fiction: The story is our escort, without it we are blind’.
MAIL GUARDIAN CORRESPONDENT

Literary Festival 2013: The authors

The M&G Literary Festival features a lineup of well-known names from the worlds of media and publishing.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
14 min read
MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The ten things about The Man Booker Prize longlist

The Man Booker prize is awarded for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
2 min read
Osama bin Laden poster.
AL QAEDA

Ten things about the Bin Laden report

The "Bin Laden report" is the result of an investigation by a commission appointed by the Pakistan government into the slaying of Osama bin Laden.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
3 min read
Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File
ESPIONAGE

Ten things about surveillance

The word comes from the French, meaning to look or watch over (veiller; to watch or keep watch, as in a sentry; sur: over or above)

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
2 min read
NATIONAL UNION OF METALWORKERS OF

Numsa responds

The M&G has obtained a copy of the submission by the National Union of Metalworkers to facilitators conducting an inquiry into the problems in Cosatu.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
3 min read
JUNE 16 1976

SPIKE: Ten things about June 16 1976

The day on which black South African school pupils rose up against "Bantu education" is now celebrated as Youth Day.

  • Mail Guardian Correspondent
  • Staff Reporter
2 min read