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eThekwini commuters pay for council’s contracts

Article Greg Ardé - 24 Feb 2020

Perhaps a commission of inquiry can shine the spotlight on public transport in Durban, where bus and taxi passengers have to contend with fare increases and disrupted services

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Public Protector is being used by a ‘rogue intelligence unit’, says the SACP

Article Natasha Marrian - 26 Jun 2019

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane must face an inquiry over her fitness to hold office, SACP second deputy general secretary Solly Mapaila says

Impatient left could align with Ace

Article Natasha Marrian - 14 Jun 2019

Alliance partners Cosatu and the SACP are in a tricky situation: they don’t want Magashule hawking their ideas, but they do want their ideas heard

It’s not right for SA’s left to reject elections

Article Benjamin Fogel - 6 Jun 2019

Elections can be used to build a movement that advances a democratic socialist alternative

There are reasons to reject identity politics

Article Shaun Stanley - 1 Jun 2019

It is not empirically useful as an approach to understanding social reality

Cyril aligns cogs in his Cabinet

Article Natasha Marrian - 31 May 2019

The negotiations started before the elections and continued until the very last moment.

Sobukwe was no apartheid sellout, as Mapaila claims

Article Neo Lekgotla - 20 Feb 2019

The regime regarded the PAC leader as the only political prisoner. The others, including Nelson Mandela, were ‘ordinary’ prisoners

Quo vadis? End of the ANC as we know it

Article Ivor Sarakinsky & Ebrahim Fakir - 15 Feb 2019

The party must decide if politicised uncertainty and institutionalised ambiguity will be its end

Raymond Suttner’s long walk to graduation

Article Staff Reporter - 13 Dec 2018

The self-effacing struggle stalwart talks about finally receiving the degree he was denied during apartheid

JZ schmoozes voters before his court date

Article Paddy Harper - 25 Nov 2018

Zuma was campaigning ahead of the ANC’s annual January 8 statement, which will be delivered in Durban by President Cyril Ramaphosa on January 12

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SACP suspends former mayor linked to VBS bank scandal

Article Staff Reporter - 10 Nov 2018

The party's provincial spokesperson, Machike Thobejane, confirmed the suspension

VBS Scandal: Capricorn mayor explains R60m investment

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Nov 2018

The council only became aware of the VBS saga when a trade union wrote a letter expressing its concern following a notice to suspend the deputy CFO

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Obituary for the late Mandla Makupula, MEC of Education in the Eastern Cape

Article Advertorial - 19 Oct 2018

A true soldier of the struggle, till the very end

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Timol: New case against security cop

Article Raeesa Pather - 19 Oct 2018

The NPA has, until now, failed to prosecute perpetrators who didn’t get amnesty from the TRC

Freedom fighter and trade unionist Eric Mtshali dies

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Oct 2018

This remarkable veteran helped to build the trade union movement even while in exile

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The tender that keeps on giving

Athandiwe Saba - 18 Sep 2020

A battle between three North West departments has exposed how a firm was paid half a billion rand (and counting) for a R122-million contract

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Refugees the scapegoat of SA’s ills

Birgit Schwarz - 17 Sep 2020

A girl’s experience tells the story of xenophobia and how it robbed her of a sense of belonging

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SANDF mum on serial rapist claim

Sabelo Skiti - 17 Sep 2020

An internal report on sexual offences at a military academy says the defence force failed a deceased rape victim and has called for an internal investigation

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