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The Gauteng high court is setting down civil trials as far ahead as 2031. Photo: Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images

Mail & Guardian defends application for a gag order

The lawsuit is the latest example of business entities trying to bar the media from reporting

Zunaid Moti. File photo

Gag order against amaBhungane set aside

It was an abuse of the court process to grant a gagging order to the Moti Group, justice Ronald Sutherland said

Regardless of how the 2024 elections end, the ruling party must undergo radical political transformation to survive
(Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

Why the Concourt ruling on intra-party disclosures is important

The president has 12 months to redraft the executive ethics code to compel the disclosure of all donations to campaigns for positions within political parties

Thousands of members of the NUMSA (South African Union of Metal Workers) attend a mass anti corruption march organized by various South African unions and political and civil societies in Johannesburg, South Africa on October 14, 2015. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Business unionism: Numsa risks collapse amid battle of ideas

Some, including Zwelinzima Vavi, say unions risk collapse if they are run like businesses — a critique that Irvin Jim argues is part of a ‘mischievous attack’ on his leadership

The general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), Irvin Jim, was candid in claiming that he did not view the MK Party as a socialist-oriented party.

Numsa’s Irvin Jim claims media takedown campaign

The metalworkers union leader has alleged that NGOs want to capture the union, using media outlets

The bad news headlines may be true but the good news is often overlooked

No easy fix to SA media money crisis

The closure of the New Frame, which sought to chase quality over clicks, is a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of donor funding

Former Transnet chief financial officer Anoj Singh. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

How a telecommunications firm extracted Transnet money for the Guptas

The Zondo commission’s second report deals with the capture of Transnet through the ‘Gupta racketeering enterprise’

On 5 December 2017, Markus Jooste (right) suddenly resigned as Steinhoff chief executive amid an investigation into accounting irregularities at the firm.  (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

‘Steinhoff cannot cherry pick the PwC report for the public’

The retail firm has not established why the contents of the 3 000-page report is privileged, counsel argued. And even if it had, the report’s release is ‘in the public’s interest’

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

Sars appeals to ConCourt to keep Zuma’s tax secrets

The high court ruled banning the release of tax information was unconstitutional. Sars disagrees, saying is not only wrong but makes an exception of the former president

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Michele Spatari / AFP)

High court orders release of Zuma’s tax files to media

The court held that sections of the law providing for absolute taxpayer secrecy posed an unconstitutional limitation on the right to information and gave parliament two years to…

ANC chairperson and Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Photo: Supplied

Mantashe on ANC integrity commission’s radar

The ANC’s integrity body’s chairperson, George Mashaba, said that the elders would discuss summoning the ANC chair over allegations of corruption

Most South Africans agree that the country is in a mess and that the ANC must go if there is to be any chance of a second building of a new South Africa.

#CR17 fight heads to the Constitutional Court

amaBhungane’s arguments about the disclosure of campaign funding are also expected to be heard

Shady deals: The PIC wants to recover the R1.06-million it lent to Independent’s Iqbal Survé, but he is heading up a loss-making group of 20 print and digital news outlets. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Gamechangers: The morphing landscape of South Africa’s media

Two books on two media outlets, Daily Maverick and Independent newspapers, tell stories of success and failure

Axed public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. File photo by Madelene Cronje

Reining in the public protector

As well as its scathing findings on Mkhwebane’s investigation into Ramaphosa, the high court also made important in-principle pronouncements

In last week’s webinar on global racial tensions hosted by The Jerusalem Post Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng expressed support for the state of Israel guided by his Christian beliefs and biblical texts.  (Madelene Cronjé)

Top court questions surveillance laws

Justice Chris Jafta says Rica legislation is one of the ‘worst drafted’ laws he has ever seen