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ROB ROSE: Is South Africa’s business-government collaboration just a comforting ruse?

Accountability is sorely needed

Chris Hatting.

Business-government bromance is failing South Africa

It’s time for business to put government under pressure to deliver

NATASHA MARRIAN: A poll where everything is in play

No more safe seats in the 2026 local elections

JUSTICE MALALA: Bring this dark money to light

Dark donations are a threat to South Africa's democracy and electoral transparency

The Arnot coal-fired power station, operated by Eskom in Mpumalanga.

MICHAEL AVERY: We can’t ‘walk around’ the Eskom facts

Eskom’s R30bn profit doesn’t mean it has R30bn to spare

Eskom’s recovery makes unbundling harder — and more necessary

The utility's recovery should not be an excuse for delay

GDP stumble raises the hurdle for 2026

A GDP contraction has dealt ablow to South Africa's economic momentum, endangering growth targets

Helen Zille

Real Politics: DA dare not forget Zille’s warning 

There are risks aplenty to a coalition with the ANC

The week ahead: ANC candidate crisis heads to court

Your political and economic calendar for the days to come

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — How low can we go?

Of flyovers and failures

JUSTICE MALALA: What can a crumbling ANC offer South Africans at the ballot box?

Paralysed by division, the ANC can't even agree on a candidate for Joburg

South Africa’s border tech enters a confused era

South Africa’s step into the modern age of border controls is creating chaos

Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza. Picture: GCIS/KOPANO TLAPE

Real Politics: The centre is holding – and must endure

The Didiza vote shows the GNU's centre is holding firm

The week ahead: Politics goes door to door

Your guide to the goings-on in the days to come

EDITORIAL: Business can’t fix what politics won’t

An economy growing at 1.1% cannot simply be willed to nearly treble its pace

TIM COHEN: If it doesn’t work, do we still need it?

Do we still need the Financial & Fiscal Commission?

Behind the inflation debate: What the analysts say

A sharp drop in July inflation has led economists to rethink interest rate projections

Real Politics: Burke tests DA’s clean-government claim

The DA cannot afford to blur the lines between it and the ANC

The week ahead: D-day for candidate lists

Here’s looking at you, ANC, with the IEC’s Friday deadline looming

JUSTICE MALALA: Desperately seeking brave leaders

SADC summit: all talk, no action in the region.