Only a handful of attempts to blockade roads took place in response to Monday’s shutdown call
DA leader John Steenhuisen challenges ANC to share its list of mayoral candidates during the main opposition party’s own big metro candidate list-reveal
Political feathers are ruffled as deputy mayor candidate Diana Hoorzuk is ‘imposed’ on eThekwini by provincial executive council
Outgoing Eastern Cape chairperson Oscar Mabuyane is ready to lead the province for another term. The ANC provincial heavyweight and one of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s loyal allies said that when the province holds its conference in December, he will put his hat back in the ring. Mabuyane leads one of the ANC’s biggest provinces after […]
The new finance minister has a difficult task, but analysts say his political capital will help him hold a hard line on state spending
The Msunduzi local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is on permanent life support and shows no sign of being cured
The mining industry is riding a wave that will eventually crash, analysts warn
Despite agreement that it would be politically ‘unwise’ for the president to remove the health minister before the Special Tribunal makes its decision on the application by the Special Investigating Unit, he may have just done so
Asylum seekers with valid permits and caregivers will now also be allowed to apply for the reinstituted social relief of distress grant
The tumult in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng has forced people to go without chronic medication and check-ups, caused shortages at the blood bank and disruptions in the vaccine roll out
Covid-19 bans on alcohol and the recent violence have exposed just how important booze sales are to retailers that once only filled trolleys with food
Three weeks ago, a second term for the president seemed a safe bet, but the insurgency has thrown the puzzle pieces in the air
Very little is known of the late guitarist, who was a keeper of a stark and foreboding maskandi sound
Pfizer will deliver 1.5-million doses on Sunday and a further 5.6-million doses by Wednesday and 1.4-million J&J vaccines will arrive by Monday
Protecting our loved ones from harm and destruction is brave and noble but the insistence on framing the brutality in Phoenix in terms of the protection narrative is disingenuous
The Zuma family also urged people to continue to desist from destroying infrastructure, adding that it opposed the arrest of Ngizwe Mchunu
Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi urges employers to be honest when applying for help
There are concerns that post office branch closures will make it difficult for beneficiaries to access the grant
More than ever before, decisive leadership is needed from politicians, military leadership and civil society to march the South African National Defence Force in the right direction
Civilians working together signals the possible germination of a deeply embedded democratic culture where ethnicity no longer divides
The social, political and economic problems of poor governance need to be fixed so that public resources are managed and distributed equally
The recent violence has been a cruel reminder for many South African Indians of the 1949 anti-Indian pogroms in KwaZulu-Natal
An environment group says its application is a ‘watershed’ case for stopping deep sea exploration
A pioneering project has released 800 captive-bred Pickersgill’s reed frogs back into the wild in KwaZulu-Natal
A Durban depot container with 1.5-million rounds of ammunition may have been targeted, as others in the vicinity were left untouched, say security sources
Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi says 120 private pharmacies were destroyed and 47 500 vaccines lost in KwaZulu-Natal
This photographer hopes that wise leadership arises to channel the energy of the youth of today, as did their forebears of 1976, into the actions that are necessary to truly liberate our country
The Thursday-night discussion was held a week after riots gripped the nation, renewing calls for a basic income grant
Rebuilding is crucial, but democracies cannot allow themselves to be held to ransom by the destruction of anarchists in dictating where public funds should be spent
The South African Society of Psychiatrists has warned that children and adolescents are vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder
More than 150 000 jobs in province are at risk after last week’s orgy of destruction
Some blame the feud between the police minister and the national police commissioner blamed for slow reaction to unrest