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Clicks-bait: EFF MP’s new parole probe

Politics Lester Kiewit - 18 Sep 2020

Kenny Motsamai, a parolee who is also an EFF MP, could be sent back to jail if correctional services finds he violated his parole conditions

EFF MPs to be investigated for disrupting parliamentary proceedings

Politics Lester Kiewit - 15 Sep 2020

Under the spotlight will be the Economic Freedom Fighters’ behaviour at the State of the Nation address and during the public enterprise department’s budget speech

Paddy Harper: Anti-racism is the mane thing

Opinion Paddy Harper - 12 Sep 2020

What we want: Ramaphosa to cough up a hairball, racists in hair shirts and consumer boycotts that don’t turn hairy

EFF on a collision course with dissident black women

Opinion Barbara Boswell - 10 Sep 2020

The party’s response to journalists and those who speak against them reveal a consistent pattern of misogyny

MPs demand answers from Ramaphosa on Covid corruption

Politics Lester Kiewit - 27 Aug 2020

In a robust meeting of the hybrid sitting of National Assembly, President Cyril Ramaphosa met MPs face to face for the first time since questions over lockdown corruption arose

ANC starts up its engine for 2021 race

Politics Paddy Harper - 16 Aug 2020

The party seems to have abandoned plans to delay municipal polls as branches shift to election mode

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The case against Floyd Shivambu

Politics Thanduxolo Jika - 9 Jul 2020

The flow of money from VBS Bank would seem to suggest that the EFF’s second-in-command was an ultimate beneficiary of proceeds of a crime

Corruption allegations: It’s a family affair at Dihlabeng municipality

National Athandiwe Saba - 2 Jul 2020

The mayor, her relatives and their friends keep landing lucrative tenders and using state resources. Yet Lindiwe Makhalema has failed to declare the list of her relationships with people and companies benefiting from the municipality

Ramaphosa: Find the ‘silver lining’ in Covid-19

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 18 Jun 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa tells MPs he expects tough economic times ahead for South Africans, but the crisis is a chance to ‘look at the way we’re doing things’

ANC needs young leaders and uDuduzane could be one

Opinion Sello Ivan Phahle - 14 Jun 2020

Youth Day, June 16, reminds us of the role of youth in the struggle against oppression throughout the history of the ANC

ConCourt settles the law on the public protector and interim interdicts

National Franny Rabkin - 30 May 2020

The Constitutional Court said it welcomed robust debate but criticised the populist rhetoric in the battle between Busisiwe Mkhwebane and Minister Pravin Gordhan

Richard Calland: CR’s tough test amid politics of pandemic

Coronavirus Richard Calland - 28 May 2020

Opposition parties and ANC ‘factions’ will attempt to use the crisis to their advantage

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Coalition politics and law: The fight over Tshwane

Politics Franny Rabkin - 27 May 2020

With coalition politics on the rise, particularly in local government, this kind of court case is likely to become more common

Swati editors flee to safety in SA

Africa Bill Snaddon - 21 May 2020

Independent media is under threat as authorities harass and threaten journalists

Battle for control of the City of Tshwane is back on

Politics Nation Nyoka - 18 May 2020

The DA has won a high court victory, but the ANC is taking its campaign for power to the Constitutional Court. All the while, residents are left leaderless and without services

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