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A compromised president or a scary alternative - we hold our leaders to a low bar in South Africa, writes Mandy Wiener.

In December 2022, the 55th – and possibly last – elective conference of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will take place against a backdrop of sociopolitical chaos. In the limited audio documentary series, ‘The Highwaymen’, investigative journalists Richard Poplak and Diana Neill...

Eskom, by not attending to load shedding, is agitating for the overthrow of the state,’ Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe said as his department signed purchase agreements with independent power producers, securing 1,759MW of energy into the grid in the near future.

The corruption case against the suspended chief magistrate of Pretoria, Desmond Nair, was postponed for an external magistrate to be arranged to preside over the matter.

Amid our many crises, isn’t it time for a serious discussion about the strategies activists use to advance human rights?

South Africa is in a situation that is close to emergency conditions. And it’s important that big business acts in coordination with civil society, and other sectors and organisations, to leverage its power to save our country and our democracy.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said that his government had been working hard over the last five years to stop the looting, to prosecute those responsible and to recover stolen funds.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the settlement between Swiss tech firm ABB Ltd and the NPA was a huge development and a result of the hard work to end the looting of resources meant for the benefit of South Africa’s people.

Allegations cover charges that stretch from 2002 to the present day, mainly to do with the ‘land claims scam’ and the case of conservationist Fred Daniel.

The much-vaunted plan, which involves allowing private sector players to independently run trains and invest in Transnet’s infrastructure, has bombed. And the state-owned enterprise is to blame.