The Geneva session was an opportunity for the country to update the UN’s Human Rights Council Working Group on progress made
Our problems are load-shedding, high unemployment, unfavourable investment conditions, corruption and collapsing infrastructure
The Maluti-a-Phofung municipality’s failure to provide people with water results in locals having to pay thousands of rand for water to private suppliers
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The country shouldn’t be facing this threat but it could bring urgency to bringing in reforms to stop corruption
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Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path
Three high-ranking police accused of using protesting students to defraud crime intelligence have finally been taken off the job
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The broken Zimbabwe economy and political system are too much of a push factor for xenophobia and Aaron Motsoaledi to stop people seeking refuge in Mzansi
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Policing receives the most complaints regarding corruption
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The July 2021 unrest was shocking and many have since warned that those tensions could be easily reignited
The municipality spent more than R13 000 to cover mayor’s costs for a meeting on HIV/Aids, which officials say he did not show up for
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The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration since the outbreak of the pandemic
If the conference is misjudged then, like the Titanic, the ANC will sink
The energy conundrum affects everyone, but the implications for people like Mavis, who are trying to survive the pitfalls of the second economy, rarely get public space
Facemaskpreneurs and state capture agents are the only ones unhappy about Wednesday’s dual announcements
Big corporations can absorb fines as a cost of doing business but a more rigorous system needs to be put in place to combat corruption and bribery
A non-trial resolution framework would go a long way to helping the state combat cases that would otherwise have slipped through the net
EFF tries to disrupt president’s speech to Parliament by bringing up deluge of points of order
The former president has been issued with a certificate from the National Prosecuting Authority that allows him to pursue a case against the state prosecutor
Consumers, who have remained resilient despite South Africa’s economic woes over the past decade, are being squeezed on all fronts. What are the policy options? Or is it the same old, same old
Former Eskom chief executive says Zondo Commission was ‘very sympathetic’ towards Glencore’s relationship with Ramaphosa
Corrupt local leadership is creating a hopeless situation for the area’s young people who are not politically connected to patronage networks
Bakili Muluzi will face corruption charges for pocketing funding that was meant to build a new hospital
Former Transnet chief executive Siyabonga Gama and four others have been arrested on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.
This generation has no fear of authority. They will not submit to injustice or silently overlook wrongdoing or bullying. What is wrong with us?
Since Eskom’s a no-go, perhaps our Minister of Monuments’ R22-m flag will be powered on arrogance and self-belief alone
Beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) can help tackle corruption, reduce investment risk and improve national and global governance, but implementation remains ‘a sad story’
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Government department accounting officers can now authorise contract deviations that previously had to go through the treasury
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Just a few weeks left until taps run dry in large parts of the metropolitan
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Flooding in KZN has shown that walls aren’t high enough in the end to protect migrating middle and upper classes from our shared reality
Durban and the eThekwini region was in decline – fuelled by corruption and political killings – before the deadly floods sank it
As a recent court case in Nelson Mandela Bay shows, the city management appointment process should be purely administrative and stripped of politics
Disrupting corruption with a data-driven approach is possible