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It was eight days of unprecedented looting and arson, which started on the night of 8 July 2021. Once the smoke subsided, at least 281 dead bodies counted and the trauma settled, the South African fiscus R50-billion poorer and the event was named as one of the contributory factors to the shrink...

The ball is once more in civil society’s court. Can it capture the public imagination? Can it reignite a progressive mobilisation involving tens of thousands of people? Can it kindle genuine hope and offer a road other than further polarisation, violence and conflict? We believe that it can.

Conservative estimates from a study in the Western Cape are that pupils have fallen 95% to 106% of a school year behind earlier cohorts in maths skills. Language learning is not much better.

Documents missing from the department’s website are the first step for citizens wishing to request records - going against Paia regulations.

Developing countries should not be coerced into accepting a bad deal on waiving intellectual property rights.

Gupta enabler Joel Raphela, former deputy director-general in the Department of Mineral Resources, was arrested along with two Gupta lieutenants on Wednesday morning for raiding R1,75-billion in rehabilitation trust funds from the Optimum and Koornfontein mines in Mpumalanga.

Some work is already underway following already released commission recommendations stemming from the State Capture report

The State Capture Commission’s fourth report has recommended that the National Prosecuting Authority consider charges against controversial businessman Edwin Sodi and former Free State government officials Nthimotse Timothy Mokhesi and Thabane Zulu.

Jacob Zuma and the RET are firmly in charge and calling the shots in KwaZulu-Natal. If Cyril Ramaphosa is elected ANC leader in December, he will have to contend with a hostile province.

Jacob Zuma’s legal team suggested there could be a repeat of the July 2021 riots if his corruption trial wasn’t postponed on Monday. The absence of accountability allows the former president to continue undermining the rule of law while warning of a repeat of the deadly violence he helped s...