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Outgoing President Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party has held power since independence from Portugal in 1975

Meet Mozambique’s four leading presidential candidates

Outgoing President Filipe Nyusi’s Frelimo party has held power since independence from Portugal in 1975

Grave concern: President Cyril Ramaphosa (above) regards allegations against Police Minister Senzo Mchunu as requiring ‘the highest-priority attention’.

Make SA great again: I care enough to keep you accountable Mr President

We have not given up on you yet, Cyril Ramaphosa, but the people need to see real-time decisive action

Deputy President Paul Mashatile. Photo: (Morapedi Mashashe/Getty Images & Christopher)

Mashatile: Government helps municipalities repay debt to Eskom

The deputy president told the National Council of Provinces that the municipal debt relief would be conditional and application-based

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Why Trump pleaded not guilty in New York court after historic arrest

The twice-impeached Republican is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted

People queueing during a distribution of hampers, masks, soap and sanitiser during the Covid-19 pandemic, which was organised by different charities at the Iterileng informal settlement near Laudium, Pretoria, on May 20, 2020. (Photo by Marco LONGARI / AFP)

Roadmap to get public services and infrastructure back on track

As SA’s democracy heads towards 30 years, we need to critically assess what needs to be done differently to become Madiba’s miracle nation

Voters queue outside the polling station at the Jules High School, in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, on November 1, 2021. (LUCA SOLA/AFP via Getty Images)

We need a president – woman or man – who cares

Having a woman leader of the country would show a shift in gender equity, but more than that, South Africa needs someone morally unimpeachable who listens to the impoverished

Disadvantage: Heading the state capture inquiry may work against Raymond Zondo  (Phill Magakoe/AFP)

Zondo may miss chief justice cut

The deputy chief justice is said to top Ramaphosa’s list but his position as head of the state capture commission is seen as too politically fraught

One-way flow: From Nelson Mandela to Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa (above), there has never been a standard of high engagement between the press and the president in South Africa.

Pure Politics: ‘Family meetings’ underline uncomfortable press relationship

To achieve a deeper democracy, it is necessary to confront the tensions that have existed between the media and successive presidents since 1994.

Mining industry calls for investment during Indaba

Despite the depressed economic environment, the mining industry contributed billions of rands to the economy last year, and can continue to do so if it focuses on environmental,…

First AstraZeneca-vaccines arrive in South Africa

The first one million AstraZeneca-vaccines were welcomed at OR Tambo International Airport

African countries holding elections increases the quality of civil liberties.

African leaders are more constrained by democratic rules than you think

The process of institutionalisation may be patchy and uneven. But one thing is clear: Africa is not without functioning institutions

Al Akhawayn University library. The university is located in Ifrane

Ramaphosa to look into explosion of VIP protection costs

An IRR report alleges that the budget allocated to VIP Protection Services exploded from R353-million in 2008/2009 to R1.5-billion in 2018/2019.

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Hello Mr President: Cyril Ramaphosa elected unopposed

‘Only one candidate has been nominated and it is in order. I declare the Hon. Ramaphosa duly elected as the President of South Africa’

Jacob Zuma

Zuma goes down laughing— at us

Confronting his political death, he cares nought about anyone or the tainted legacy he has bequeathed South Africa

The case was postponed to June 18 to allow the accused to make representations to the NPA as well as to have the State handover the docket and other documentation to the defence.

Markets calm over Ramaphosa win— for now

News that Cyril Ramaphosa had been elected ANC president pleased the markets at first, with the rand dollar exchange rate improving