The ANC’s policy conference started an hour and a half late, but the party’s youth league did not waste anytime to get tjatjarag.
One minute and 52 seconds. That is how much Agri SA bought with Jacob Zuma by having a stand at the business exhibition of the ANC policy conference.
An hour and a half into the ANC’s policy conference, the ANC Youth League was getting tjatjarag – and not because proceedings started so late.
As new details emerge, ANC politician David Dlali’s death is not as clear cut as it first seemed. Phillip de Wet reports.
The 350-seat Boeing 777 is bigger, faster and more imposing than the president’s 737, writes Phillip De Wet.
A court battle over the formula for payouts looms and musicians will have to wait for any money, writes Phillip de Wet.
SA record companies are finally closing in on the hundreds of millions of rands they say local radio stations owe them, writes Phillip de Wet.
You don’t need an anti-free speech or religious motive to pervert online censorship application. Bureaucratic empire-building and profit work as well.
Although President Zuma could force local internet service providers to make "The Spear" disappear from their servers, it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
President Jacob Zuma tried to stop "The Spear" court case before proceedings started a week ago, but the ANC insisted on going ahead.
Whether it be child pornography or a politically sensitive painting, banning content widely distributed online is often pure symbolic futility.
While meeting over "The Spear", the Film and Publications Board has astonishingly seemed to imply it is obliged to suppress political criticism.
City Press has opted to remove "The Spear" from its website, despite the apparent failure of the ANC’s call for a boycott on the paper.
Venterdorp is little different after the Terre’Blanche judgment. But the nature of racism may have changed, writes Phillip de Wet.
No matter that the victim was SA’s top right-winger, Eugene Terre’Blanche. In the end it was just another brutal farm murder, writes Phillip de Wet.
Chris Mahlangu has been found guilty of murdering Eugene Terre’Blanche just over two years ago, bringing to a close the first part of a complex trial.
The beginning of the end of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s murder trial is potentially explosive, but police (and the AWB) say they’re not expecting trouble.
Despite the sympathy and outrage, the Democratic Alliance still lacks street cred, writes Phillip de Wet, who attended the DA march earlier this week.
There were no winners in the clashes in Jo’burg on Tuesday. But the main protagonists at least balanced out their losses, unlike the ANC and police.
Even though the al-Qaeda boss is dead, South Africa could still be targeted for attacks, new documents show.
Traditional leaders, excluded from real power since the interim constitution was replaced by the permanent version, are looking for a ‘Zuma dividend’.
The tweet by Jessica Leandra Dos Santos is but the tip of an ugly iceberg: SA’s online racism goes a lot deeper than that, writes Phillip de Wet.
A comprehensive review of SA’s military capabilities paints a grim picture of the country’s defence capabilities. Let’s hope Lesotho doesn’t invade.
Finance institutions and aid groups have begun changing their focus in Africa to smaller-scale systems that help to make farmers more independent.
Although food prices have continued to rise, riots because of this fact have been almost non-existent as people have generally suffered in silence.
The issue of genetically modified foods has resurfaced, especially with the food shortages in Africa and many countries have embraced the idea.
A perceived government clampdown on dissent in the Themb’elihle informal settlement has increased militancy and the chances of violence.
Former struggle soldiers seem to be gearing up to use the run-up to the ANC’s elective conference to gain more than just cheaper bus fares.
As water trouble continues in Diepsloot, it appears residents are starting to suffer the health consequences — but not according to official figures.
Social networks have been sent into a frenzy this week as news broke of the brazen and sustained attack on a Soweto teen.
Diepsloot’s desperate water situation has tested
the patience of its thirsty and scared residents.
The blaze of public outrage over the videotaped gang rape of a Soweto teen is shining new light on how underage suspects and rape cases are handled.