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National Prosecuting Authority investigators executed fresh search warrants at Sasol’s Secunda operations this week while company executives appeared before Parliament, as investigators revealed the long-running criminal investigation into alleged pollution of the Vaal River has expanded. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

Sasol halts answers to MPs after NPA raids Secunda operations with search warrants

A long-running criminal investigation into allegations that Sasol unlawfully polluted the Vaal River system took a dramatic new turn this week when National Prosecuting Authority…

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
SANRAL aims to be a catalyst for the emergence of businesses owned by women
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE

DFFE weighing N2 Wild Coast compliance notice eight months after inspection

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is weighing a compliance notice against Sanral after inspectors found serious environmental non-compliance,…

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Under pressure: The crisis at Tshilidzini Hospital should not be viewed solely as a provincial healthcare failure, it should also prompt a broader conversation about the governance environment in which public healthcare operates. Photo: X
HEALTHCARE

Hospitals don't create governance failures... they inherit them

Every election, South Africans are promised better healthcare. Yet by the time many patients reach a public hospital, the system has often already begun to fail them—not only…

  • Nomzamo Netshivhale
5 min read
JOHANNESBURG

Zille’s effective campaign in Johannesburg

Helen Zille, the DA's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, has launched an unconventional campaign exposing the ANC-led metro's failure to provide basic services. She has lodged a…

  • Brian Sokutu
7 min read
While aggregate joblessness was historically high before 1994, the rate of young people locked out of the economy has surged to unprecedented levels, defining this generation's struggle
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

Youth Day at 50: The new struggle is the fight for a future

Youth Day honours the young people who rose up in Soweto in 1976 — students who paid with their lives to resist an education system deliberately engineered to diminish them.…

  • Linda Meyer
6 min read