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EFF leader Julius Malema said the move signalled the president’s loss of confidence in the police. (@EFFSouthAfrica/X)

EFF welcomes Ramaphosa’s announcement to deploy the army in Gauteng and the Western Cape

Party leader Julius Malema said the move signalled the president’s loss of confidence in the police

The South African Democratic Teachers Union alleges schools are pressuring learners in grade 10 and upwards to drop maths to protect overall matric pass rates

Unions slam basic education department over no maths at 464 schools

The South African Democratic Teachers Union alleges schools are pressuring learners in grade 10 and upwards to drop maths to protect overall matric pass rates

Budget botch: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana (Dwayne Senior/Getty Images)

VAT battle is over but coalition crisis continues

Meetings are due in coming days and weeks to undo the damage after the finance minister caved on the tax increase

Creecy said there were no private equity offers “on the table”. (Photo by Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Debt-free SAA still looking for private equity and a loan, says Creecy

The minister also wants to secure capital inflow for Transnet

Malevolent: Former ANC president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party has, in the past two months, thrice gone to the electoral court, and plans to make a fourth visit. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Only the MK party intent on challenging the election outcome

Other parties flagged irregularities but want to distance themselves from MK and Jacob Zuma’s efforts to discredit the elections

Songezo Zibi, Rise Mzansi National leader. (Photo by Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

LISTEN | Songezo Zibi – Donors, not Steenhuisen’s DA, are the architects of the moonshot pact

The leader of Rise Mzansi said the Democratic Alliance leader was not credible or capable of becoming South Africa’s president

Songezo Zibi, Rise Mzansi national leader. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

PART TWO: Rise Mzansi promises social democracy but delivers neoliberalism

Despite evidence of the dangers and failures of public-private partnerships, the ANC and newcomer Rise Mzansi ignore these concerns

The double standards on Palestine and Ukraine have left white liberalism morally bankrupt in the eyes of many black South Africans, but the emerging alternatives to the ANC are often appalling.   (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

White liberalism and the appalling alternatives to the ANC

South Africa’s political narrative is mired in a swamp of inadequacy and hypocrisy

South Africa’s 2024 political reality is bleak

The elections offer us the choice between the liberal/conservative group that offers no real benefits for the poor and working-class, and a populist, authoritarian form of…

File photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA

Magic formula: Maimane, Mashaba and Zibi working together

The democratic revolution requires a collective effort that goes beyond the ambitions of individual parties or leaders

Action SA chairperson Michael Beaumont. (Photo by Gallo Images/Papi Morake)

R500m election kitty: moonshot, money shot or long shot?

Funders are concerned about the fragmented opposition but party leaders are adamant that they and not donors are driving the process

Newspapers have been, and still are, battling to find ways to survive. Sales have dropped and revenue from adverts has dwindled and they have not yet found a way to make enough money by publishing online. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Uncaptured: The money problem and the journalists who have ‘stopped looking’

Part IV: Journalists helped pull SA back from a precipice by exposing the depth of state capture. But they are staring into an abyss of their own

Russian journalist Babchenko smokes a cigarette during an interview in Kiev.

ABSA granted interim order against BLF following ‘customer assault’

The interim order was granted in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg late on Thursday afternoon.

Banks have unfairly assisted Jacob Zuma because of his political position.

Songezo Zibi: Nkandla exposes corporate rot

It is fashionable to blame politicians for a lack of ethics, but they are abetted by business

Alan Greenspan said the rule of law helps economies to grow.

State institutions shape the future

Businesses will circumvent the law to protect their interests if government is corrupt, writes Songezo Zibi.

Songezo Zibi

Midrand Group: Keeping the ANC awake at night

Ungovernable, fearless and disrespectful, a small group of young black intellectuals is riling the ANC and they’re unapologetic about it.

Former acting National Prosecuting Authority director Mokotedi Mpshe.

Legitimacy in a time of political perversion

As Julius Malema and others face criminal charges, the whiff of political interference is in the air again.

Nonracialism and the untouchables

We need a generation of black people who refuse to be defined by the victimhood of colonialism, writes <b>Songezo Zibi</b>.