As the just transition gathers momentum and renewable energy becomes more affordable, countries around the world taking climate action. South Africa must follow suit
The president needs to report back to South Africa on what his government has – and hasn’t – achieved since 2018
Ramaphosa’s dithering, as well as a failure by the country’s intelligence and police services, aided the two-week carnage
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The recommendation is not binding on President Cyril Ramaphosa but the legal community says it would be difficult to ignore, given its historic import and ruling party backing
The chairperson of the state capture commission and acting chief justice said he had no bias in favour of the president or any against his predecessor, but proceeded on the basis of evidence, without thought as to whether it could deny him the post of chief justice
The ratio of private security members to citizens is 1:106, whereas that of police officers to citizens is 1:413
The Gauteng judge president’s words turned prophetic as he came under sustained political attack in his interview for the post of chief justice
If the president will not put South Africa first instead of the ANC, then the Zondo commission may have done a good job but accountability is not attainable
If Ramaphosa is casting about for good news, he must address the biggest beacon for hope: the just transition
They have, as a matter of principle, opposed the suggestion that an NWC member, Gwen Ramokgopa, be seconded as coordinator in the ruling party’s engine room.
Former PEC member Peter Nyoni has thrown his hat in the ring in what is expected to be a fierce contest for party chair in Mpumalanga
ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has asked Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Ramaphosa’s ‘failure to report corruption’
Not ‘trial ready’: 386 Special Investigating Unit referrals lead to just one case in court so far
The presidential bobbing and weaving over ANC campaign funding is about to come to an end
The judiciary is under attack from populists – again – and needs a leader who can balance tensions between rights in the Constitution brilliantly and bravely.
The brilliance of Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s mind and his transformative judgments can prove salutary at a time when the judiciary is under populist attack, his peers hope.
The SIU has recovered R34.2-million and is chasing a further R551.5-million of alleged graft from the government’s R152-bilion Covid-19 spend
There will be losers and winners as the provinces prepare for their elective conferences and slates are sealed. Find out who is trading.
The minister’s open defiance has raised the stakes in a standoff that points to the looming power struggle President Cyril Ramaphosa faces
The tourism minister will have to jockey with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Zweli Mkhize for a presidential nomination.
In a public showdown with the president, the minister promptly distanced herself from his statement that said she apologised for her attacks on the judiciary
When one state of disaster ends, we’ll enter the other, familiar one, where service failure is the endemic pandemic.
The first locally manufactured Covid-19 vaccine from the new facility, which is based in Cape Town, is expected within the next year
The former president is asking the Pretoria high court to declare Zondo’s tenure as chairman of the commission of inquiry unlawful and to order Ramaphosa to appoint a new chair
So far, one of South Africa’s ‘big four’ banks faces a serious allegation levelled in the Zondo report — and more revelations may follow
The presidency said the move required input from legal experts but analysts suggests it may in some way have been precipitated by the fire at parliament
The president said slurs against the judiciary, sabotage against institutions and the findings of the Zondo commission showed the need to protect democracy
Lindiwe Sisulu and other power and prosperity seekers in the ANC had the authority to improve the lives of ‘the people’, but didn’t
Probe findings may result in little more than a Pyrrhic victory as kingpins go free
The minister in the presidency said there was a need for the government to do more to protect the judiciary
The attack by Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on judges as enslaved to a colonial mentally placed the acting head of the judiciary in an impossible position, fraught with politics, legal scholars say