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National Director of Public Prosecutions advocate Shamila Batohi says efforts to stabilise the National Prosecuting Authority is yielding success.

A 15-page letter by lawyers for the liquidators of Regiments Capital has plunged owners Niven Pillay and Litha Nyhonyha into a fresh crisis as a court hearing aimed at extracting cash for legal fees has been pushed back to 2023.

Deputy Minister in the Presidency Pinky Kekana should be reprimanded in the National Assembly after the Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests found her guilty of contravening the ethics code by failing to declare the R170 000 she received from corruption-accused tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi.

The ANC can't afford to be virtuous

Technology: Much can be gained from tapping into the potential of artificial intelligence as a peace-making tool.

It should be a requirement that government officials disclose all meetings, events, correspondence, submissions and other engagements with big businesses and their associates.

Regiments Capital owner Niven Pillay has gone to court for cash to pay legal fees as well as living expenses for his family in South Africa and the United States.

What happened in the Ekurhuleni mayoral vote could well happen in national government — that the ANC gets something like 40% of the vote and needs a significant number of seats to augment their numbers in order to govern. And if the other parties all agree to prevent that, it could well be that...

SA can no longer afford to pay lip service to battling corruption, as any continued dillydallying will propel us towards failed statehood.

Given the pattern of autocracy-through-democracy found in Zimbabwe, South Sudan, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Cameroon, among others, governments who share democratic values need to keep their eye on the ball.