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The Copyright Amendment Bill is a recipe for recolonising education

OpinionCollen Dlamini | 2019-09-02 00:00:00

In an opinion piece published by the Mail & Guardian on August 19, Sanya Samtani makes...

Are critics of the judiciary legitimate or dangerous?

OpinionHugh Corder | 2019-08-26 09:11:00

As a branch of government, the courts must naturally be accountable for the exercise of their power. The means of achieving their accountability must be balanced against their necessary independence....

State champs at its border Bill bit

BusinessLynley Donnelly | 2019-08-16 00:00:00

The clashes between police and immigrants during raids for counterfeit goods in Johannesburg’s city centre last week have added fuel to government’s fervour to institute the Border Management Authority Bill....

How to impeach the protector

NationalFranny Rabkin | 2019-07-26 00:00:00

After the Constitutional Court judgment against her, removing Busisiwe Mkhwebane from her position is the obvious next...

New Scopa chair wants parly watchdog to have more 'bite'

PoliticsLester Kiewit | 2019-07-03 13:52:00

Mkhuleko Hlengwa, the new chairperson of Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), says he wants the body to have more power to...

ANC pushes through controversial committee chairpersons

PoliticsLester Kiewit | 2019-07-02 13:43:00

Members of the National Assembly in Parliament have elected chairpersons to take control over portfolio committees in the legislature.

EFF to decide on whether it will disrupt Ramaphosa’s Sona

PoliticsLester Kiewit | 2019-06-20 17:59:00

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Parliament says it will decide at an eleventh-hour caucus whether or not to raise issues surrounding...

ANC and DA try to gain upper hand in municipal stalemate

PoliticsNatasha Marrian | 2019-06-21 00:00:00

A political chess game for control of key municipalities lost by the ANC in the 2016 local government elections is slowly taking shape.

The ‘Bantustan Bills’ remain disastrously flawed

OpinionLetlhogonolo Mokgoroane | 2019-06-05 00:00:00

Today (June 5), South Africans from all corners of this country will march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria against the signing into law of the...

How Auntie Patty became Minister De Lille

PoliticsLester Kiewit | 2019-05-30 09:16:00

GOOD party leader Patricia de Lille was offered a Cabinet position just hours before President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new executive.

Immediate priorities for Ramaphosa and the sixth Parliament

OpinionRobert Shivambu | 2019-05-25 00:00:00

On Wednesday evening, President Cyril Ramamaphosa was elected unopposed by the sixth Parliament of the “democratic” South Africa — and...

I will be a president for all South Africans — Ramaphosa

PoliticsLester Kiewit | 2019-05-22 17:57:00

Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected president of the republic of South Africa, unopposed by legislators in the National Assembly.

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