Voter turnout for local government elections has steadily risen since 2000, but the uptick could be stalled by Covid-19, much like registration has been
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Police minister Bheki Cele said they have identified the KZN, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces as high risk areas deploying a high contingent of police and SANDF
Both the podcast host and the leader of the Democratic Alliance believe in a toothless non-racialism that ignores the historical foundation of racism and the pain it inflicts in the present
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Malibongwe Dubazane is contesting all 14 of the IFP-run Nkandla local municipality’s wards
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The nascent Setsoto Service Delivery Forum is confident it can remove the ‘failing ANC’ in the chronically mismanaged Free State municipality
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Paddy Harper doesn’t know who to vote for yet, since the Dagga Party isn’t contesting his ward, but right now what to order for lunch is a more pressing concern
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Chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the ailing state power utility’s staff would be on standby as South Africans cast their votes on 1 November
The country’s local governments are a drag on investment, a strain on the fiscus and pose a critical sovereign risk
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A sensible climate policy must balance the imperative of decarbonisation, socioeconomic policy and security of supply considerations
After almost three weeks, labour and employers have reached a deal — setting the steel industry back on its path to recovery
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Only four populations of the micro frog, endemic to the wetlands near Bredasdorp, were known before this discovery
Vuwani residents are ready to vote, but none of the top three parties is wooing them
The high court has ruled that the dissolution of the water entity’s board by Minister Lindiwe Sisulu was unfair and unprocedural
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The proposal was made during the Cop15 biodiversity conference in China last week when the conference adopted a post-2020 framework to save nature
Proteas steer course twixt hope and dread
It’s a long shot at political redemption for the former health minister and, more pressingly, a bid to avert criminal charges
Oscar Mabuyane and MEC Babalo Madikizela allegedly used a portion of state funds for struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s commemoration for their own benefit
The law was challenged in response to raids in inner Johannesburg seemingly targeting illegal immigrants and the highest court has pronounced itself 10 days before an election in which then mayor Herman Mashaba has campaigned on an anti-foreigner ticket
Former president Thabo Mbeki urged business and government and society to work together to tackle issues such as poverty, unemployment and poor services and infrastructure
South Africa’s pension system is ranked 31st out of 43 countries, receiving a C-grade which indicates major risks and shortcomings that should be addressed
The court battle to stop coal mining in rural KwaZulu-Natal has heightened the sense of danger among environmental activists
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The EFF has a stronger online presence than the ANC and Democratic Alliance
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The deputy chief justice said all the former spy boss had to do to respond to bombshell testimony implicating him in state capture was to apply for a turn to testify
Organ recipients are at greater risk of death from Covid-19, while waiting lists for transplants grow
More than 39 000 young people had registered on the government’s database by 4pm on Wednesday
At least 65% of the pellets in the cartridge hit the 16-year-old when he was gunned down in Eldorado Park, Johannesburg, allegedly by in-training constable, Caylene Whiteboy
Analysts say the Reserve Bank could start tightening monetary policy as early as next month
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Acting judge Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s acquittal of a rape suspect has raised controversy, but legal experts say the fault lay with legislators and not the court
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Agrochemical producer UPL said it has paid R250-million in chemical spill clean-up
The former director general of intelligence’s character assassination of the deputy chief justice is straight out of the Zuma playbook
A programme that trains caregivers, mostly women, gives children a better start in life, helps close the gender pay gap and retains now-qualified women in the workforce