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Chapter Nine of Below the Line, a Below the Line|saga that begins with a prologue, a little life, interrupted "Rand, do we have to? Tonight?"...

When a voluntary organisation, whose membership is made up of lawyers more broadly defined as "attorneys, advocates, legal advisors, law students and judicial officers," puts forward as its favoured candidate a judge who, by all reasonable standards seems ineligible for consideration, red flags are raised, writes Craig Watt-Pringle.

The Public Protector’s chief operations officer, Lucky Mohalaba, has become the latest senior official to resign from the Chapter Nine institution.

As South Africans face up to the challenge of the next wave of the Covid pandemic, accompanying waves of corruption are once again sweeping the country, with more PPE scandals coming to light, and funds intended to alleviate suffering and poverty vaporising into the pockets of a corrupt few. It begs the question: ‘What, if anything, can counter corruption in our country?’ Paul Hoffman, member of anti-corruption organisation Accountability Now and author of Countering the Corrupt, believes it is still possible to stop the culture of corruption from becoming inevitably entrenched in ...

Reports of racism in South African schools are common. The most recent report of racism was at Cornwall Hill College in Pretoria where learners held a protest against racist behaviour and policies at the school. But what happens when the cameras leave? We took a look at some events from the recent past to identify how schools are transforming.