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

Real Politics: The centre is holding – and must endure

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

  • Zukile Majova
5 min read
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

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

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

  • Zukile Majova
6 min read
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

The week ahead: D-day for candidate lists

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

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
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MADLANGA COMMISSION

The week ahead: Idac intrigue continues

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for in the days to come

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
Week ahead
ANTI IMMIGRATION

The week ahead: More anti-immigrant rumbles

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for this week

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
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BY ELECTIONS

The week ahead: international relations in focus

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for this week

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

The week ahead: Opposition parties deny ANC Phala Phala chair

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for this week

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
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CPI

The week ahead: sharp spike in inflation expected

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for this week

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – MAY 08: Legal personnel during the delivery of the judgment on Phala Phala at Constitutional Court on May 08, 2026 (Photo by Gallo Images/Luba Lesolle)
ANC

Buffaloed: Phala Phala comes charging back

Phala Phala is back from the dead. The Constitutional Court just revived an impeachment inquiry the ANC thought it had killed in 2022

  • Tim Cohen
6 min read
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DIESEL

Fill up your fuel tanks before the diesel price drubbing

Mark your calendar: here is the political and economic news to watch out for this week

  • The South Africa Brief
3 min read
Week ahead
CPI

The week ahead: Dada’s last dance? 

Mark your calendar – here’s the political and economic news to watch out for in the days to come

  • The South Africa Brief
5 min read
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ECONOMY

The week ahead: life beyond the G20

Mark your calendar – here’s the political and economic news to watch out for in the days to come

  • The South Africa Brief
4 min read
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COLLINS LETSOALO

RAF’s Letsoalo swerves subpoena as fund’s financial crisis deepens

With contingent liabilities set to rise to R422bn, the Road Accident Fund has hit a wall – and its ex-CEO is nowhere to be seen

  • Tim Cohen
3 min read
RAF money hole
PARLIAMENT

Scopa peers into the Road Accident Fund’s abyss

The parliamentary hearing into the fund has revealed a catalogue of contempt and collapsing controls

  • Tim Cohen
3 min read
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ECONOMY

The week ahead: Mkhwanazi, trade tensions and more

Mark your calendar – here’s the political and economic news to watch out for in the days to come

  • The South Africa Brief
6 min read
Rawpixel/Gallo/Currency collage. Collins Letsoalo: (Photo by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Kabelo Mokoena)
COLLINS LETSOALO

RAF CEO suspended while the board ducks for cover

The RAF board has converted Collins Letsoalo’s ‘special leave’ into a ‘precautionary suspension’ following allegations of insubordination

  • Tim Cohen
3 min read
Solly Malatsi. Photo by Gallo Images/Frennie Shivambu
COMMUNICATIONS

Starlink and parliament’s theatre of the absurd

A fractious grandstanding session by members of the EFF, MK and ANC means any Starlink concessions are no shoo-in

  • Tim Cohen
6 min read
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DRC

South Africa’s army: too many generals and geriatric troops

South Africa’s defence force is top heavy, old, overly concerned with soft issues and pomp – and it’s costing soldiers their lives

  • Ali van Wyk
12 min read