In his State of the Nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa said improvement of the business environment would now sit within the presidency and former Exxaro chief executive Sipho Nkosi will lead the ‘red tape team’.
Though the president’s speech hit the right notes, business will be looking out for delivery over promises.
But Greenpeace Africa says the president must let go of ‘gas fantasies’
Opposition parties say the need for private-sector involvement in state affairs is proof of a ‘failing dummy cabinet’
In the meantime, government will mull the best options to replace this grant with another form of income support
As the president spoke about state capture, opposition MPs murmured disparagingly in a manner previously reserved for his predecessor Jacob Zuma
Ramaphosa said planned institutional reform will improve the enforcement of water standards at municipal level
The president’s strategy to stop the unemployment crisis from spiralling includes cutting red tape and focusing on infrastructure investment
The president promised that the state will act on the findings of the Zondo commission and vowed to cut red tape to facilitate job creation
The president promised that the state will act on the findings of the Zondo commission and vowed to cut red tape to facilitate job creation
Talk is over, the country needs action says Chief Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela ahead of the State of the Nation address
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the 2022 state of the nation address to a joint sitting of Parliament and the nation
We need robust and open discussion about South Africa’s transformation. What we don’t need is ham-fisted attempts at political posturing and calling our judges names
The JSC exceeded its mandate to place the president in a corner in which exercising his wide powers to select the next chief justice have become fettered by popular concerns
Mminele, who last year stepped down as Absa chief executive, will head the newly established Presidential Climate Finance Task Team
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.