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Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Coronavirus Thokozani Chilenga Butao - 17 Jun 2020

Covid-19 has exposed, among a host of other things, the glaring gaps that appear when the wrong people have been put in the job

Nurses ‘threatened’ after refusing to attend to people in quarantine

Article Chris Gilili & Athandiwe Saba - 19 Apr 2020

Sixteen people identified during mass testing in the Eastern Cape were first taken to a B&B before being taken to a hospital

How to refresh SA’s jaded democracy

Article Ivan Turok & Andreas Scheba - 11 Mar 2020

We should look to the Philippines, where barangays, or neighbourhood governments, help to empower communities

Angola’s dos Santos family empire in the firing line

Africa Agency - 16 Jan 2020

Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from...

Drama rocks Market Theatre

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 27 Jul 2018

Allegations and counter-allegations are flying between the board’s chair, management and staff

Daughter of Angola’s ex-president sacked as state oil chief

Africa Staff Reporter - 15 Nov 2017

Angolan President Joao Lourenco has fired his predecessor's daughter, Isabel dos Santos, from her influential post as head of the state oil company

CSIR chief claims ‘state capture’

Article Staff Reporter - 1 Jul 2016

The council’s boss feels he is being targeted for opposing a bid to meddle in a tender .

Political observers: SA has become a police state

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Apr 2016

Several political observers have hinted that a recent spate of incidents - dismissed as random acts of crime - may be the workings of state security.

Dos Santos exit plan but a ploy

Africa Claudia Gastrow - 31 Mar 2016

The Angolan president is buying time in an attempt to diffuse growing political tensions and balance popular demands with his personal interests.

Rent-seeking is gobbling up our economy

Article William Gumede - 10 Sep 2015

When the politically connected keep gorging at the trough, bona fide black talent is kept back, writes William Gumede.

Jobs for pals at state nuclear firm

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Mar 2015

A whistle-blower has claimed that the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation created a job for the chief executive's wife, Ngeniswa Tyobeka.

Magashule: Cadre deployment is here to stay

Article Matuma Letsoala - 24 Feb 2015

"We [the ANC] are not ashamed of cadre deployment. We will continue to implement it without fail," says the Free State premier.

What Mugabe’s red carpet tumble means

Article Staff Reporter - 5 Feb 2015

The president’s fall on the red carpet made him mortal - but laid bare the nation’s hate and hurt.

Jacob Zuma’s daughter cleared for duty

Article Verashni Pillay - 13 Nov 2014

Thuthukile Zuma's job as chief of staff at the telecommunications and postal ministry has been okayed, but efforts to change the status quo are afoot.

Zimbabwean officials deny vice-president’s resignation

Africa Staff Reporter - 11 Nov 2014

While Zimbabwean officials deny vice-president Joice Mujuru's resignation, President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace has embarked on a smear campaign.

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Finance probe into the Ingonyama Trust Board goes ahead

Paddy Harper - 20 Oct 2020

The threat of legal action from ITB chairperson Jerome Ngwenya fails to halt forensic audit ordered by the land reform minister

National

Fake trafficking news targets migrants

Jan Bornman - 20 Oct 2020

Exaggerated reports on social media of human trafficking syndicates snatching people in broad daylight legitimate xenophobia while deflecting from the real problems in society

National

Female cops sent for rape counselling

khaya koko - 18 Oct 2020

Brigadier Sifiso Cele denies the rape allegations, saying that they are part of a smear campaign and that criminal charges should have been opened if the accusations were true

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special reports - 20 Oct 2020

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