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Xenophobia weaponised in ‘truck wars’

National Des Erasmus - 5 Dec 2020

KZN’s premier has tried to intervene by offering South Africans preferential access to jobs, but foreign drivers say locals don’t want the work

Construction sites are a ‘death trap’

National Bongekile Macupe - 4 Dec 2020

Four children died at Pretoria sites in just two weeks, but companies deny they’re to blame

Koko claims bias before Zondo commission

National Emma Balfour - 4 Dec 2020

In a lawyer’s letter, the former Eskom chief executive says the commission is not being fair to him

ConCourt asked to rule that Zuma must testify for 10 days next year

National Emma Balfour - 4 Dec 2020

It is Zondo's legal end game and will leave the former president, his supporters and those implicated in state capture to increasingly play fast and loose at imputing political motive to the commission

This is how the SIU catches crooks

National Athandiwe Saba - 3 Dec 2020

Athandiwe Saba talked to the Special Investigating Unit’s Andy Mothibi about its caseload, including 1 000 Covid contracts

FNB dragged into bribery claims

National Khaya Koko - 3 Dec 2020

Allegations of bribery against the bank’s chief executive, Jacques Celliers, thrown up in a separate court case

Tighter Covid restrictions for N. Mandela Bay — other hotspots may follow

Health Sarah Smit & M&G Data Desk - 3 Dec 2020

With the number of cases spiralling out of control in hotspots in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape, longer curfews and restrictions on alcohol sales are being implemented

Watch it again: Ramaphosa addresses the nation

Coronavirus Staff Reporter - 3 Dec 2020

The president's address follows a special sitting of Cabinet, which considered recommendations of the National Coronavirus Command Council

Ruling deals crushing blow to zero-hours contracts

National Dennis Webster - 3 Dec 2020

Ferrero factory workers have won the first battle in what might become one of South Africa’s next wars on casual and precarious work

Hope grows on Durban beachfront

National Paddy Harper - 1 Dec 2020

Ten homeless men who turned a vacant lot into an organic vegetable garden are now reaping the rewards of their toil

Zuma maintains his true colours at Zondo commission

National Niren Tolsi - 30 Nov 2020

The former president’s escapades at the commission of inquiry into state capture are a far cry from Nelson Mandela’s response when summonsed to testify in the high court

Shadow of eviction looms over farm dwellers

National Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni - 29 Nov 2020

In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction

Klipgat residents left high and dry

National Andries Sibanyoni - 28 Nov 2020

Flushing toilets were installed in backyards in the North West, but they can’t be used because the sewage has nowhere to go

Madibeng has a ‘blatant disregard for the law’

National Andries Sibanyoni - 28 Nov 2020

The local municipality irregularly spent at least R443.8-million according to the auditor general’s latest report

Q&A Sessions: ‘I think I was born way before my time’ — Mamodupi Mohlala

National Nicolene de Wee - 26 Nov 2020

The chief executive of the Estate Agency Affairs Board and the deputy chair of the SABC board, shares her take on retrenchments at the public broadcaster and reveals why she hates horror movies

Public protector’s ‘mistakes’ were made to nail the president, court hears

National Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

Busisiwe Mkhwebane discarded facts that were inconvenient to her when she investigated the CR17 campaign, Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers argued

CR17 report is not perfect, but the investigation was rational, court hears

National Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

So says public protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane’s lawyer, who said she had reason to suspect the money was being laundered through the campaign

Traditional healers need new spaces

National John Molebatsi, Christina Breed & Gary Ivan Stafford - 24 Nov 2020

Proper facilities supported by well-researched cultural principles will go a long way to improving the image and perception of the practice of traditional medicine

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