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City of Tshwane station officer Arrie Visser and special infection unit’s Rocco Veer do final checks on their isolation chamber before starting a night shift at the Hatfield Emergency Station. The chamber is equipped with a negative pressure filtration system and is used to transport positive Covid-19 patients. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)
HEALTH WORKERS

Relief is near in the scramble for vaccines

The health minister has announced a glimmer of hope with SA having secured 1.5-million doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
8 min read
JB Marks was formed when the Ventersdorp and Tlhokwe municipalities merged in 2016. (Gallo)
JB MARKS MUNICIPALITY

JB Marks Municipality in the North West placed under administration

The municipality, that includes Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp, had been placed under administration as per a provincial executive committee decision

  • Sarah Evans
3 min read
Self-interest: Then president Jacob Zuma votes for himself at Ntolwane Primary School in Nxamalala in 2014
BLADE NZIMANDE

This is the house that Daddy built

After 10 years of following the JZ story, I slept through Shaun’s decision to charge him

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
“Because a 50% or 60% [debt to GDP ratio] is not such a bad figure if the composition of expenditure is such that the bulk of it is an investment rather than in consumption,” says Nhlanhla Nene.
DUDU MYENI

​Cabinet reshuffle: A new dawn in the economic cluster

The president made several sweeping changes to his cabinet which saw the return of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister

  • Lynley Donnelly
4 min read
“We are listening to the heartbeat of South Africans and this heartbeat tells us there is land hunger
ANC 54TH NATIONAL CONVENTION

ANCYL call for rating agencies to distance themselves from Gordhan statements

The ANCYL alleges that Pravin Gordhan said that if Cyril Ramaphosa is supported for the ANC’s top post, there will be no downgrades.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
EFF leader Julius Malema. File photo
AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION

Don’t be fooled by Ramphosa’s ‘New Deal’ or NDZ’s ‘radical economic transformation’

The front-runners for the ANC’s presidency have flimsy platitudes and little else to offer

  • Vukani Mde
5 min read
The EFF’s secretary general Godrich Gardee said the party was opening the case against Mkhize for corruption and soliciting a bribe.
CR17

Eastern Cape ANC want Mkhize as Ramaphosa’s deputy

Despite Ramaphosa’s surprise announcement that he wants ANC NEC member Naledi Pandor to be his deputy, his constituents are saying otherwise.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
‘Conference starts late and ends late under normal circumstances. I anticipate a small war over credentials
ANC

ANC’s wishy-washy  ‘race’  limps on

The hopefuls all bury their individuality to be slaves to party dogma

  • Eusebius McKaiser
5 min read
ANC treasurer general Dr Zweli Mkhize says that
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Mkhize: I will help heal a divided ANC

Paddy Harper asks the party’s ‘unity’ presidential candidate whether his rivals have been wooing him

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Members of the KwaZulu-Natal ANC Women’s League perform in support of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the party gears up for the ANC’s next national elective conference.
ANC

Ramaphosa takes an early lead as ANC branches cast their vote

With almost a third of branch nominations completed, Ramaphosa is leading the ANC presidential count but NDZ is certainly not out of the race yet

  • Mg Political Reporters
10 min read
(Reuters)
BALEKA MBETE

Deep inside the race to be prez

Report of the Mdluli Detachment to His Excellent Highness Number One — Only Fifty Days to Go till Conference — and edited by a British spy.

  • Shaun De Waal
3 min read
Mathabo Leeto
ANC

Mkhize works at being No 1

The ANC treasurer general is being punted as a unifying ‘third way’, which is gaining traction in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

  • Paddy Harper
  • Govan Whittles
5 min read
ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize speaks about inequality
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Zweli Mkhize: We need to focus on inequality, poverty and unemployment

ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize speaks about inequality, poverty and unemployment and how the governing party can deal with the matters.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
What a joke: Who needs men when the ANC Women’s League is doing such a sterling job of attacking women?
ANCWL

The ANC is now at war with itself

Every week sees renewed infighting and it will only get worse as it gets closer to the party’s elective conference

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
ANC CRISIS

Teflon Don gets his way: Zuma emerges victorious again

On Tuesday night, the party mistakenly sent notes about its NWC meeting

  • Matuma Letsoalo Author
5 min read