The cautionary tale of Bell Pottinger reminds us of the role of journalism in a democracy and why we owe it to ourselves to be more responsible about the media we consume
The term ‘corruption’ is a convenient scapegoat that leaders deploy to mask their moral failings. Instead, they should re-evaluate their personal ethics
New research details how the department was broken, profiting a select few and leaving a third of South Africa’s population without clean water
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Cape Town’s largest passenger rail line has been closed for months, hitting people’s pockets and adding to road traffic congestion
Four Sonas on, he is still to enforce his will upon the governing party and the state
But Casac says this should be the final extension granted
State Security Agency still cannot produce the security clearance certificate required for the incumbent, Baptiste Dungu, to occupy the top post at the Onderstepoort Biological Products
The SACP is not building socialism, or even social democracy. Sadly, it has become just another party advancing the politics of patronage
Counsel for late trade unionist Neil Aggett’s family decries the slow pace of instituting an inquest into his death
The deputy chief justice says the inquiry’s terms
of reference are too broad and it would take six years to look into state capture in such detail
A letter signed by 40 senior women lawyers called the absence of female silks from the state capture prosecutions team ‘astonishing’
The former president’s son was asked why a private meeting with Mcebisi Jonas was moved from a hotel in Rosebank to the Gupta residence
Political parties must reform themselves, but the responsibility for change belongs to every citizen
While giving evidence on the Vrede Dairy saga, Roy Jankielsohn said officials who speak out against malfeasance could end up dead
Following a heated back-and-forth with the former president’s legal team, the commission will no longer be losing its star witness
Despite Nxamalala’s walkout from the Zondo commission, we’ve learned a few things this week
Former president Jacob Zuma is expected to appear before the commission of inquiry into state capture on Wednesday. Watch the proceedings here
The former president denies funneling state funds to the Guptas
The former president tells the Zondo commission he never visited the Gupta residence at the same time as Mentor did
The former president revealed on Monday that members of his family and his legal team have received death threats
The former president is expected to appear before the commission of inquiry into state capture for his second day of testimony on Tuesday
The former president told the Zondo commission that there was nothing unlawful about his part in the Gupta media project
Former president bemoans plan to remove him, details plot including using “suicide bombers” to assassinate him
The former president says he ‘wants peace’, but he has been provoked to the last degree
The former president outlined a longstanding conspiracy by three intelligence organisations against him which he said culminated in the commission
The state capture inquiry confirmed in a statement that the former president will appear in July
The news media was a counterweight to a criminal enterprise that had captured the state
StatsSA released South Africa’s economic output on Tuesday with the main contributors to the collapse being manufacturing, mining and agriculture
The Transnet board chairperson alleges that the move appears to have been an effort to bail out construction company Group Five
The Transnet chairperson will testify on Tuesday
Even one-year sentences will effectively disqualify state capturers from the realm of politics
Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s book exploring Ace Magashule’s role in state capture has been rubbished by the ANC, which the author says is “predictable”