Business can’t replace the state
On November 4 there will be a reckoning
Sanral faces subpoenas, suspensions, and fraud probes after its R9.5bn road maintenance tender was declared unconstitutional, with a judge terming its conduct 'dishonest,…
As ideological lines between the DA and the ANC become blurred, the real contest will be over credibility: the ANC says it can renew itself and finally implement reforms promised…
Business leaders tell Currency their faith in Ramaphosa has run out – and why the GNU, not the president, anchors confidence
South Africa’s failure to enforce immigration rules shifts the burden onto poor communities, fuelling resentment over jobs, housing, clinics and crime.
The biggest victim of South Africa’s law-enforcement turf war may be the public’s faith in the rule of law
The NEC has closed ranks behind Ramaphosa after the Phala Phala ruling. Not out of loyalty, but because too many ANC careers depend on his survival
Rob Rose and Zukile Majova dig into the lawlessness of the March on March movement, Sisisi Tolashe and Solly Malatsi’s disastrous AI policy
Ramaphosa’s SAPS suspensions look inconsistent, but they’re a calculated bid to hold the centre while structural reform takes hold.
Transnet and Eskom are acting as both referee and player, says BLSA, while political interference at municipalities is as bad as ever
Alex van den Heever says NHI lacks the legal, fiscal and constitutional foundations to work, while urgent health reforms have been sidelined.
An inexplicable R4.2bn write-off has blown a hole in Postbank’s capital position – and may finally scupper its banking ambitions
A San community in Botswana’s Okavango has ordered convicted South African smuggler Dawie Groenewald off its hunting concession. He’s ignoring the courts – and them
Will Patrice Motsepe’s ANC president bid succeed amid expectations to protect a controversial faction and its figures?
Unpaid claims have soared to more than double the Road Accident Fund’s budget. And there are no solutions (yet) to its staggering unravelling
A leaked recording, court orders and company records point to a high-stakes struggle over a lucrative Okavango hunting concession – and political meddling
What does it mean that US President Donald Trump ordered an operation that toppled the Venezuelan government and abducted its president, Nicolás Maduro – an act that would…
A pre-dawn raid, a newly unsealed indictment and a President in cuffs: US prosecutors say Nicolás Maduro turned Venezuela into a cocaine pipeline to America.
The club has been slapped with an astonishing valuation – and a utility bill of nearly R1m – that threatens to finally destroy the 138-year-old institution
