A team working with the country’s Covid ministerial advisory committee uses a formula to keep tabs on the rise of infections. Here’s how it works
The magistrate ruled that bail was not an option because he was a flight risk even though he had travelled to the UAE after being implicated in the Zondo commission
The Northern Cape department of education has had to close more than 70 schools in the past three weeks because of high numbers of Covid infections
The Reformed Structures photographic series marries Siya Mahlaba’s love for architecture and photography with his inquiry into segregation in the Dutch Reformed Church
Sources inside the talks said the NWC decided to take a safer option and exhaust all internal processes while it investigated a charge of misconduct against the defiant party leader
PTT is “full of people who were close to Ace but now have dumped him”, says source in the Free State ANC
The former minister and Free State MEC for agriculture denies any knowledge of the Guptas’ role in the deal and his trip to India
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule has been ordered by the party’s NEC to publicly apologise for writing an unauthorised letter suspending President Cyril Ramaphosa
Audit firm PwC said R500-million irregular expenditure incurred by the Free State education department is related to an unsolicited bid by the Kagiso Shanduka Trust to improve schools
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Mantashe says it was part of the top six’s instructions to the Free State provincial leadership to file an intent to appeal its dissolution
Outraged provincial secretaries called for a meeting with Luthuli
House after the ANC secretary general broadened the NEC’s step-aside resolution
The protest is reportedly in response to the ANC’s step-aside decision that affects the likes of Ace Magashule and other party heavyweights
For the past four years, the matric results in Tshwane South has been the leading district in Gauteng. The formula to success has been involving the parents
The minister of basic education released the 2020 matric results on Monday, announcing that the overall pass rate has declined from 2019
The ANC secretary-general hints he will cling to his post after he appeared in the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court
Three more people have been arrested, bringing the total of accused to 15, who will appear in the Mangaung magistrate’s court today
The eThekwini branches say they will engage the party’s regional and national structures to prevent Magashule and Zuma’s ‘persecution’
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More salvos are fired in the ANC over Zuma’s refusal to testify at the Zondo commission, as ruled by the ConCourt
Covid disrupted the 2020 academic year but catchup plans have been hatched in the nine provinces, including extra lessons, earlier class times, and subject-specific boot camps
Ace Magashule will appear before the ANC’s integrity committee this weekend. After that, all eyes will be on next year’s conferences to see who will win the fight for control of the party
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On Ace Magashule’s watch, speaking out has cost more than a few whistleblowers their lives
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule will appear before the ANC’s integrity commission on 12 December
Reverend Frank Chikane has just completed six years as the chairperson of the Kagiso Trust. He speaks about corruption, his children’s views and how churches can be mobilised
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A centralised procurement programme in the province allegedly operated under the former premier
The president was answering questions before parliament, where he also told the EFF to allow the courts to decide on the matter of the CR17 bank statements
As the president extends the state of disaster for another month, other restrictions will be eased, including those on alcohol sales and international travel
The ANC secretary general has not offered to stand aside, despite the recent NEC ruling
Parts of the provincial ANC will target their former premier, Magashule, and the Free State PEC in a rolling mass action campaign
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If micronutrients are blown away and the soil dries, the Free State maize crop is threatened
Ace Magashule’s anxiety has to do with the array of arrests of high-profile people facing fraud and corruption charges
The Free State municipality allegedly handed over responsibility for deciding who received state land to specific officials instead of an evaluation committee
Learning from its failure to turn the Schabir Shaik conviction into one for Jacob Zuma, the state is now building an effective system for catching thieves. Khaya Koko, Sabelo Skiti and Paddy Harper take a look behind the scenes at how law enforcement agencies have started creating consequences for the corrupt