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Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’

National Lester Kiewit - 26 Sep 2020

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

No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’

National Eyaaz Matwadia - 26 Sep 2020

With internet lag keeping them from global competition, local gamers have settled on a format for EA’s FIFA 2020 allows 11 people to play as a team. And the prize money in local leagues is growing. Eyaaz Matwadia boots up for the first instalment of Gaming Corner

Q&A Sessions: Mari Stimie and opera’s next act

Coronavirus Cayleigh Bright - 26 Sep 2020

The producer spoke to Cayleigh Bright on the day the Cape Town Opera returned to rehearsals after almost six months of lockdown about the future-proof transcendence, resilience and relatability of opera

Emergency hospital: Gauteng’s potential R500-million albatross

Coronavirus Sabelo Skiti & Pontsho Pilane - 25 Sep 2020

Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising to come online only after Gauteng’s peak

Durban business raided as Transnet contracts face scrutiny

National Paddy Harper - 25 Sep 2020

Contractors allegedly paid Transnet officials for lucrative procurement deals

Convict Andile Lungisa resists calls to quit city council

National Sabelo Skiti - 25 Sep 2020

Former youth league leader Andile Lungisa cites ANC constitution, and argues assault is not corruption in a bid to keep his party membership

All mahala say claimants in R1-billion Mala Mala land claim

National Lucas Ledwaba - 25 Sep 2020

Endless court cases and threats plague community of South Africa’s most costly restitution settlement

Health workers fight without fuel

National Sarah Smit & Paul Botes - 25 Sep 2020

Community health workers are at the frontline of the fight against Covid-19 in Gauteng, but many have not been paid for months. Sarah Smit and Paul Botes talked to workers who spoke of their love for the job – and how that love has been trifled with

The young and the rentless: Inside Camps Bay’s “hijacked” mansion

National Lester Kiewit - 23 Sep 2020

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

Sticks and stones: Qwelane and the violence of words

National Sarah Smit - 22 Sep 2020

Constitutional Court justice says homophobic article did not ignite fire of hate against the LGBTI community but added fuel to it

Long Read | SA must fix its ‘dop system’

Coronavirus Carlos - 22 Sep 2020

The Covid-19 lockdown has exposed the effects of South Africa’s weak alcohol regulations. Government and health campaigners want tougher policies, but the liquor giants are pushing back

Corruption allegations resurface at state biology lab

National Sabelo Skiti - 20 Sep 2020

The entire finance department senior management at Onderstepoort Biological Products, including an alleged whistleblower, have been suspended amid corruption probes

The Qwelane case: When human rights meet human rights

National Sarah Smit - 20 Sep 2020

The Jon Qwelane case brings into focus the tension between hate speech and freedom of expression

Hlophe says ‘assassination plot’ is a bid to sully his name

National Lester Kiewit - 19 Sep 2020

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

National Lester Kiewit - 19 Sep 2020

The sale of South Africa’s crude oil reserves is now facing a criminal investigation by the Hawks

The tender that keeps on giving

National Athandiwe Saba - 18 Sep 2020

A battle between three North West departments has exposed how a firm was paid half a billion rand (and counting) for a R122-million contract

SANDF mum on serial rapist claim

National Sabelo Skiti - 17 Sep 2020

An internal report on sexual offences at a military academy says the defence force failed a deceased rape victim and has called for an internal investigation

SA’s level best: Welcome to the new normal

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 17 Sep 2020

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

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