The M&G speaks to Minister Pravin Gordhan about government corruption and whether he thinks it could be eradicated.
In this week’s Weekend 101 Gordhan warns against government spending, Pussy riot is sent to a forced labour camp and Eskom asks for more money.
Cash-strapped groups plead for more funds: Subsidies have fallen so short of the needs of NGOs that many face imminent closure, writes Heidi Swart.
The government has to produce savvy young people to meet the challenges of the workplace, writes Forum for Public Dialogue’s Nompumelelo Sibalukhulu.
The state is trying to work out how to raise the funding shortfall needed to meet e-tolling’s contractual obligations. But it won’t raise the deficit.
A draft constitution for Zambia released last month has drawn criticism from an eminent lawyer because of insufficient debate, amongst other things.
Zuma acknowledged his administration’s poor service delivery at a business function days before his administration releases its midterm review report.
The DA on Sunday described the re-appointment of Paul Mashatile as Gauteng’s ANC chairperson as "bad new" for the province.
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/ 19 September 2009
The State IT Agency, which provides IT services to all government entities, stands accused of overpaying service providers by millions.
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/ 16 September 2009
Lebanon’s president designated Saad al-Hariri prime minister on Wednesday, asking the politician to form a new government for a second time.
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/ 10 September 2009
Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri on Thursday abandoned an attempt to form a government with rival groups including Hezbollah.
Kenya’s power-sharing deal must pull through until 2012 despite the divisions that threaten to tear apart the ruling government, the Commonwealth said
Kenya’s fragile coalition government lost its first minister on Monday, a day after talks to heal rifts within the alliance collapsed in acrimony.
Benjamin Netanyahu began his second term as Israeli prime minister on Wednesday at the helm of a right-wing government.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud signed a coalition deal with the ultra-Orthodox Shas party on Monday, bringing the leader closer to forming a government.
Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu won a two-week extension on Friday to form a government, an aide said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Parliament of violating the Constitution after it rejected a key plank of his subsidy reform plan.
Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu signed his first coalition agreement overnight with the ultranationalist Israel Beiteinu party.
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/ 25 February 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of Israel’s Likud party, has not given up hope of forging a broad coalition government.
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/ 19 February 2009
The Israeli president was to hold talks with party officials on Thursday and decide within four days who will be tasked with forming a new government.
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/ 19 January 2009
President Francois Bozize on Monday reappointed Faustin-Archange Touadera as prime minister, just a day after dissolving the government.
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/ 28 October 2008
With the unexpected expulsion of former president Thabo Mbeki, the ANC was caught without a transitional plan in place.
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