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OPPOSITION parties are threatening to take Parliament’s rejection of the independent panel report on Phala Phala on judicial review.

ANC elective years are, by the governing party’s own admission, disruptive – even outside party ranks. Amid chatter of slates, deals and cash for votes, few in government are prepared to stick out their heads and take firm decisions on South Africa’s governance and political economy.

Fraser filed a notice of motion on Wednesday in the Pretoria High Court asking to have sections where he is named, or alternatively the entire report, set aside and reviewed.

In this chapter, Lauren Hermanus and Catrina Godinho trace the process of State Capture at Eskom over time, with a focus on the period from 2010-2019. By constructing a temporal progression, it will explain how the State Capture network first infiltrated and then parasitised the utility. It wil...

You do have to have some sympathy for the new Prasa management and their board. This is crisis management at its most extreme. So, how is it going? Factually, not well, notwithstanding the line openings.

Members of the National Assembly will vote on whether to proceed with a full inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s possible resignationsparked concern about revival of Russia president Vladimir Putin’s autocratic influence.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was free from possible removal from office — and boosted en route to his second term as ANC president — on the back of ANC numbers in the House on Tuesday. With 214 votes against, 148 for and two abstentions, any parliamentary Phala Phala farm forex impeachment proceed...

For two years, four South African whistle-blowers have landed global honours at the Blueprint for Free Speech awards. Locally, however, little is done to recognise those who expose corruption.

Key decisions made by political leaders and voters over the next three years will send South Africa on a path of accelerating decline or offer the hope of renewal, but it will be a tough road.