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Chapter Nine of Below the Line, a Below the Line|saga that begins with a prologue, a little life, interrupted "Rand, do we have to? Tonight?"...

When a voluntary organisation, whose membership is made up of lawyers more broadly defined as "attorneys, advocates, legal advisors, law students and judicial officers," puts forward as its favoured candidate a judge who, by all reasonable standards seems ineligible for consideration, red flags are raised, writes Craig Watt-Pringle.

The Public Protector’s chief operations officer, Lucky Mohalaba, has become the latest senior official to resign from the Chapter Nine institution.

As South Africans face up to the challenge of the next wave of the Covid pandemic, accompanying waves of corruption are once again sweeping the country, with more PPE scandals coming to light, and funds intended to alleviate suffering and poverty vaporising into the pockets of a corrupt few. It begs the question: ‘What, if anything, can counter corruption in our country?’ Paul Hoffman, member of anti-corruption organisation Accountability Now and author of Countering the Corrupt, bel...

Reports of racism in South African schools are common. The most recent report of racism was at Cornwall Hill College in Pretoria where learners held a protest against racist behaviour and policies at the school. But what happens when the cameras leave? We took a look at some events from the recent past to identify how schools are transforming.

The NPA and the Hawks are among the institutions to suffer budget cuts. How this can make sense at a time when so much loot is awaiting collection is difficult to fathom, writes Accountability Now director Paul Hoffman.

Satellite view of Hurricane Dorian off the east coast of Florida, September 3, 2019. (NOAA/NESDIS/STAR GOES-East/Handout via Reuters) What do the research literature and government reports actually say about human-induced climate change and its consequences? Editor’s Note: The following are extracts from Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin. The first two, which are brief, are from the introduction. O...

As I write, in just over 12 hours since its official launch on May 4, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, by physicist Steven E. Koonin, Ph.D., is number 15 on Amazon’s list of top-selling nonfiction books, the top-selling book on Amazon Kindle in Weather and Climatology, and the second-bestselling book in 21st Century World History. By the time this review reaches readers, Unsettled might well be the bestselling book in all three subcategories, ...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Heberon. It appears the senior command structure of the national defence force is not an active participant into an ongoing Public Protector (PP) investigation of how and why an unregistered Cuban drug was acquired by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The investigation by Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s office is one of three. The others are a task team appointed by Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and a SA Police Service ...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - A vial of Heberon. Feedback from one of three investigations underway into the acquisition, from Cuba, of an unregistered drug to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the national defence force indicates at present no response from the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). A senior investigator at the Office of the Public Protector, responding to Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian Kobus Marais on the investigation’s progress, said the SA Health Products Reg...