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In many ways that sense of hopelessness, the sense that things will not get better and will get worse, that sense of despair is borne out by statistics, whether in the fate of the falling rand, for the economy as a whole, healthcare, crime, education and collapse of state institutions, and audi...

Transnet is struggling. The embattled freight railway and ports company — owned by the South African state — has faced corruption, setbacks and delays that have cost the public billions. But while some key figures have been criminally charged, others at the centre of Transnet’s capture and near...

As a resident of Tshwane Municipality, I am still recovering from the news last week that Dr Murunwa Makwarela, former mayor of Tshwane and a member of the Congress of the People, allegedly “pulled an Okezie” on the citizens of Tshwane.

The ANC has for many years been discussing corruption and its corrosive effect on the organisation’s social standing, integrity and influence in society and how it has contributed to its organisational, political, ethical and ideological decline. In other words, the ANC’s capacity to lead the national democratic revolution has been significantly weakened. In the recent past, a more organised form of corruption – widely known as state capture – has taken root in our state ...

Step one towards the envisaged renaissance is the ending of the National Democratic Revolution as we know it in favour of a wholehearted embrace of the values of the Constitution. If the ANC is not up to the task, the long-suffering electorate, as an act of self-preservation, must vote the ANC...

The Supreme Court of Appeal has asked law firm Smit Sewgoolam Inc and senior advocate Vincent Maleka to explain why their conduct in litigation involving the Regiments group in its battle against SARS shouldn’t be referred to the Legal Practice Council. Maleka led evidence at the Zondo inquiry...

Whistleblowers often face severe consequences for acting in the public interest: retaliation from their employers (including termination of employment, ostracisation, relentless legal action), financial strain and, in acute cases, even physical harm or death. On top of that, some whistleblowers...

The application brought by the state against fraud and corruption accused Angelo Agrizzi's fitness to stand trial could not proceed on Tuesday after the state objected to proceedings going ahead in his absence.

The ruling ANC cannot be tasked with rebuilding what it has itself broken in recent years. It is now too involved in the dysfunctionality of the current state of South Africa, with the Eskom crisis a case in point. I, like many members of the South African public, observe South African politics and state functioning or malfunctioning or failure to function with increasing alarm.

As the criminal trial featuring the Gupta enterprise unravels in SA, there silence about the extradition of Atul and Rajesh Gupta from the UAE.