Top Six

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

ANC’s ‘moral crisis’ will foil W Cape hope

Politics Lester Kiewit - 25 Sep 2020

Former premier Ebrahim Rasool says voters will abandon the party until corruption is arrested

Durban business raided as Transnet contracts face scrutiny

National Paddy Harper - 25 Sep 2020

Contractors allegedly paid Transnet officials for lucrative procurement deals

Disaster as climate crisis, tectonic shift swell Rift Valley lakes

Africa Caroline Chebet - 25 Sep 2020

The current tectonic cycle squeezes out water from the Earth’s aquifers; the previous cycle caused water to drain out of thelakes into the Earth’s aquifers

This is how Lungu is planning to rig Zambia’s 2021 general election

Africa Sishuwa Sishuwa - 25 Sep 2020

The president is trying to amend the Constitution and create a new voters’ roll in a bid to stay in power

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

‘Insult’ arrest kicks off poll race in Kenya

Africa Patrick Gathara - 25 Sep 2020

MPs’ detention may signal the silencing of dissent and a bid to railroad changes to the Constitution

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 ANC’s clean-up mission is causing a standoff

Politics Paddy Harper & Athandiwe Saba - 24 Sep 2020

ANC factions in several provinces are failing to abide by the dictates of the NEC’s decision that leaders who face corruption charges step aside from state and party posts

Why it’s crucial to collaborate

Opinion Marc Lubner - 24 Sep 2020

We are able to achieve meaningful social change better, and faster, if we act together

Global job losses linger after lockdowns

Business Sarah Smit - 24 Sep 2020

Developing countries have been hit harder by the Covid-19 downturn than in past economic crises

How to whitewash colonial pain and trauma

Opinion Jonty Cogger & Robyn Park-Ross - 24 Sep 2020

Approval of the River Club development in Cape Town is reminiscent of those bulldozing spatial planners of apartheid

Slam-dunk apps for basketball in Nigeria

Sport Tolu Olasoji - 24 Sep 2020

Would-be professionals have taken to technology into their own hands to arrange fixtures and tournaments for their favourite sport

We cannot afford incremental action on climate change

Environment Alex Lenferna - 24 Sep 2020

The government has promised that we will get to net zero emissions by 2050, but is still taking actions that will make the climate crisis worse

Eusebius McKaiser: The DA’s next leader should have a diverse political toolkit

Opinion Eusebius McKaiser - 23 Sep 2020

But in the battle of John and Mbali, the way things are going, the party will crucify the better option

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

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