An attempt to return home by Madagascar’s deposed president Marc Ravalomanana has been thwarted in the air by Malagasy ground control.
Congolese nationals living in South Africa are furious at what they call politically-linked intimidation and violence by police during raids.
The Nicholson inquiry into the state of South African cricket has begun to show the sport is in a mess, despite the Proteas’ success on the field.
Ali Bacher’s appearance at Judge Nicholson’s probe into the state of CSA has elicited a burning question about the former cricket boss’s motives.
People worldwide unite to free themselves from the shackles of dysfunctional systems.
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/ 23 December 2011
Whipping boy <strong>Niren Tolsi</strong> enters the citadel of an uptown dominatrix.
The top commentators in South Africa talk about their influence or lack thereof.
All who gathered in Durban had their own mission and ideas of what was needed.
At times the ministerial committee hearings into the affairs of CSA seemed like an awful South African remake of <i>Rashomon</i>.
CSA chief executive Gerald Majola broke down several times as he gave evidence to the ministerial committee on Tuesday.
Protesters who were attacked with water bottles and stones in a civil society march during COP17 in Durban intend opening a criminal case.
ANC supporters dressed in COP17 tracksuits exchanged stones with members of organisations that were marching against climate change on Saturday.
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/ 2 December 2011
Can an acting Constitutional Court judge who owes his or her once-off appointment to the president make an independent decision?
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/ 2 December 2011
A former chair of the Gauteng Cricket Board has told of the huge salary packages paid to CSA executives, saying grassroots cricket had been bled dry.
Retired judge Chris Nicholson’s sporting past makes him eminently suitable to chair the hearings into Cricket South Africa.
Companies linked to the "brown envelope" journalists benefited to the tune of almost R53-million — R10-million more than initially admitted.
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/ 25 November 2011
Former CSA president Mtutuzeli Nyoka has called for an investigation into the IPL bank accounts on the third day of evidence at the cricket hearing.
CSA probe reveals that governance has suffered since South Africa hosted the Indian tournament.
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/ 23 November 2011
The blacked out Mac Maharaj story isn’t worth shouting apartheid about, says <b>Niren Tolsi</b>.
The case of corruption and mismanagement against Cricket South Africa has begun with testimony from auditing firm KPMG.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has confirmed that Judge Chris Nicholson will head of an inquiry into the affairs of Cricket South Africa.
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/ 28 October 2011
The main concerns of the gathered appeared to be employment, protecting Malema from persecution and desire for the election of new leadership.
An information technology system to ensure more black advocates receive work from the government is causing a stir in the legal fraternity.
A submission from the Black Lawyers’ Association is apparently behind the row that erupted during the JSC’s interviews for the KZN judge president.
Activists in 650 cities have earmarked October 15 as occupation day. Local mobilisation is happening under the broad umbrella of Operation Ubuntu.
The Rastafari community is embracing a new-found Khoisan identity that underlines old conflicts, writes <b>Niren Tolsi</b>.
Literary magazine <i>Chimurenga</i>’s first newspaper will retell the xenophobia story from the inside.
Photographer Cedric Nunn had no choice but to pick up a camera and point it at the injustices of apartheid SA.
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/ 30 September 2011
The High Court in Johannesburg has slammed Botswana as a "pariah state not synchronised with the majority of African countries.
<b>Niren Tolsi</b> meets a community of Zimbabweans who eke out a living on Johannesburg’s mean streets.
The surprise disbanding of the ANC Youth League’s KwaZulu-Natal committee reflected the weakening of youth league leader Julius Malema.
New York professor Nouriel Roubini was bound to be a hit with the predominately pale male suits attending the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit.