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The confirmation that South Africa’s navy is going to exercise with its Russian and Chinese counterparts next month is as immoral as it is plain stupid and impractical. It highlights just how far SA has strayed from its relationships with Western allies, though this relationship, it seems, was...

The announcement that President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week to deal with the load shedding crisis is but another indication of the toxic politics of our energy catastrophe. There are, however, tight limits on what the President can reall...

While Ruto is careful and pragmatic on matter of a probe, many around him want an all-out assault against Uhuru, business interests of former First Family, and top officials in previous regime.

The DA said Eskoms failure is due to the governing party not appointing qualified people for certain jobs.

President Ruto “must be careful not to open a can of worms by forming a commission of inquiry into state capture”.

Until serious corruption is properly addressed, with fealty to the criteria set by the Constitutional Court in the Glennister judgment via the proactive reform of the criminal justice system, there will be no renewal in South Africa.

The possible poisoning of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter hints at deep distrust within the state — a distrust shared in underworld circles.

Make no mistake — Gwede Mantashe now rules South Africa. We should probably get to know him better, so that we don’t fall into the same old sorry delusions we always do.

Two weeks after going on the market, "Saxonwold-lite" - the Gupta brothers' Cape Town compound in the upmarket suburb of Constantia - is close to being sold.




    7 FEBRUARY 2019 PARLIAMENT   Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms