Does Cyril Ramaphosa have blood on his hands? That is the question being asked, and is far too glibly answered.
Politicians have had their frustrations with the courts and from time to time they have expressed them in terms that rightly give cause for concern.
President Jacob Zuma this week announced the first concrete measures aimed at bringing the violent illegal strikes that have flared up under control.
This week the government responded to two of the issues facing a depressed South Africa – Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla upgrade and protracted strikes.
The ANC Women’s League tried to defend itself this week following a widely condemned comment by Clara Ndlovu, its Mpumalanga provincial secretary.
This season’s wave of hooliganism poses an alarming threat to the future of the Premier Soccer League.
Why is the government so intent on dodging questions about the splurge on ‘security’ at President Jacob Zuma’s rural homestead?
On Monday, the long lie that is the ANC pre-conference embargo on "leadership contestation" finally ends.
Many workers now believe violence is justified, indeed necessary. Some, notably in the transport union Satawu.
For all its failings, the military remains effective in one regard: instilling fear. And striking workers at Marikana felt that fear this week.
The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.
Cosatu’s conference must be energised by the need to find a response to the crisis at SA’s mines, rather than enervated by ANC factional politics.
In 1994, our leaders, be they political, business or labour, inspired us as they fashioned the way forward. Now they are conspicuous by their absence.
There’s been a lot of talk of leadership lately, at conferences in Sandton and among ordinary South Africans. Much of that talk is about its absence.
The Institute of Race Relations argued in a report this week, that grants have been crucial to improved living standards over the past decade.
Julius Malema may not have an organised mass base outside the ANC, but he is a past master at going where there is pain.
President Jacob Zuma’s appointments to the prosecution service have poisoned South Africa’s sensitive criminal justice system.
The new SA, was founded on the basis that those who had benefited from privilege in the past would pay to fund the reconstruction of the country.
With Bobby Motaung in court, the Hawks may now begin to unravel the tangle of corruption that has made Mpumalanga a byword for gangster politics.
SA’s relationship with the US is nothing if not complicated and the ambivalence was on display as Hillary Clinton danced her way around the country.
Zuma Inc has become a source of controversy as the nation questions the trading of political favours for private – if philanthropic – interests.
It is early, but not too early, to celebrate London 2012 as one of South Africa’s best-ever Olympics. The challenge now will be to learn from this.
Our investigation into South Africa’s aborted 2008 nuclear tender offers a warning at a time when the country is embarking on a similar exercise.
For too long Zimbabwe has been afflicted by an atmosphere that is at once febrile and frozen.
The proliferation of illegal initiation schools is a threat not just to cultural practices or even young men’s lives, but to public health in general.
It has to be a South African record, the gap between the revelations of alleged misdemeanours on the part of Humphrey Mmemezi and his resignation.
The North Gauteng High Court’s decision in the Carolina matter is another instance of the courts having to push government to do its job.
The global economy is stumbling towards disaster, but you would not have known it at the ANC policy conference in Midrand last week.
As the Limpopo textbooks crisis deepens, the loudest government noises this week thundered from stable doors being heavily slammed shut …
The ANC makes much of its collective approach to policymaking: the development of discussion papers and their interrogation in branch meetings.
Our commitment, $2-billion, and the $73-billion committed by China, India, Brazil and Russia, bring the IMF firewall fund to $456-billion.
When the ANC’s policy conference begins on June 26, the majority of South Africans will probably feel a little sidelined.