Existing requirements for infrastructure spending, that require 30% of the budget to be spent on local small businesses, incentivises failure. Better to split the budgets and let each organisation play to its strengths
The death of teenager Nathaniel Julius means we urgently need to refuse to allow politicians and police leadership to protect violent officers
Remembering Patson Dzamara, the Zimbabwean activist who never stopped searching for his brother
Activists in the Kingdom of eSwatini are routinely arrested on vague and flimsy charges
One of them will have to fall if the ANC is to win back the confidence of the electorate — so it can’t be Ramaphosa
Backlogs, booze, testicular cancer — all factors blamed for the apparent ineptitude or unwillingness to tackle a pandemic that is silently killing women all over the country.
The City of Cape Town tacitly condones it when wealthy landowners behave illegally, something that is not the case if you’re poor
In a robust meeting of the hybrid sitting of National Assembly, President Cyril Ramaphosa met MPs face to face for the first time since questions over lockdown corruption arose
The Atlantic storm season, which runs through November, could be one of the busiest ever this year, with the NHC predicting as many as 25 named storms. Laura is the 12th so far.
A decade ago, Amir’s exciting young career came to an abrupt halt when he was caught bowling no-balls to order at Lord’s, set up by a British newspaper sting
Mayer’s resignation comes days after TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging a crackdown by the US government over claims the wildly popular social media app can be used to spy on Americans.
With sustainable investments increasingly outperforming traditional options, millennials – the recipients of the greatest wealth transfer in history – are queuing up to get on board
Existing government aid schemes must persist, and new ones created, at the same speed as Ters was set up, if we are to survive and thrive after the crisis
Softie is an intimate portrait of how political activism complicates family life
Temporary relief payments were suspended pending an investigation, but the UIF says it’s back on track
Britain’s economy will lose about £22-billion this year on the coronavirus-induced collapse of global travel, which could imperil three million jobs
The Argentine legend has fallen out with the Catalan club’s hierarchy, which has alerted a number of sides in world football
The politically connected Nelani family is suspected of thwarting a couple’s decade-long attempt to formalise the lease for the state-owned land they have farmed productively for 31 years
The Films and Publications Amendment Act aims to protect citizens, but new technology requires that the regulations and guidelines are updated
The South African Human Rights Commission and housing activists brought — and won — an application to halt lockdown demolitions of what the City of Cape Town said were unoccupied dwellings
The global polio eradication initiative, involving governments, the World Health Organisation and other institutions, was launched in 1988. It took three decades of immunising children to eradicate the poliovirus on the continent
Once Tel Aviv’s sworn enemy, Khartoum is apparently ready to end hostilities, but Sudanese refugees fear they may be deported
A living will — drawn up when you have your full wits about you — can speak when you cannot
Can Frelimo and its backers continue to profit from a failing state while an armed insurgency rages in northern Mozambique? And will South Africa help prop them up?
The root causes of the ongoing conflict in Darfur are rising to the surface amid an influx of arms from Libya
Four former heads of state speak about what being president is actually like
South African rugby was racist, is still racist, and nothing will truly transform it.
The fire of constitutional crisis burns in Mali, but observers shouldn’t ignore the smoke in Cote d’Ivoire.
Our Covid-19 Tender Tracker is monitoring payments awarded for PPE, and we need your help to maintain it.
A GBV policy framework that achieves gender equality in the post-school education sector and broader society needs to be urgently implemented
Instead of facing the music, Zandile Gumede seems to be winning a game of political musical chairs
The latest report shows the South Africa’s women will be the hardest hit demographic of the economic downturn