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With the ANC at a low ebb, a fractured, directionless DA under him looks incapable of exploiting this opportunity

DA accuses correctional services of giving Zuma ‘special treatment’ to attend brother’s funeral 23 July 2021 - 10:58 Image: Sandile Ndlovu On Thursday‚ Zuma attended the funeral of his younger brother‚ Michael‚ in Nkandla after he was granted compassionate leave. Michael died on July 11 after a long illness‚ a few days after Zuma started serving his 15-month prison sentence at the Estcourt Correctional Centre. The department said Zuma qualified for compassionate leave as “a short-term‚ low-risk inmate”. However‚ DA MP and shadow correctional services min...

South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday 23 July 2021 In the latest news in South Africa on Friday 23 July 2021, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. SA experiences the coldest day of the year. Keep up to date with the latest news stories and headlines in South Africa on Friday 23 July 2021. If the past week has left you cold, you’re not the only one. Millions of South Africans across the country have felt the biting chill of winter making its presence felt, from Gauteng all the way to Kimberley in the Northern Cape, where it snowed on Thursday 22 July. The good news is t...

The Bill of Rights requires humane conditions of detention – including "adequate medical treatment". Government is obliged to secure these entitlements, writes former Constitutional Court judge Edwin Cameron.

Edwin Cameron is the Inspecting Judge of Correctional Services and a member of the GroundUp board. At last — at long, long last — Covid-19 vaccinations are happening. The pharmacist who gave me the flu jab described her joy and relief at being vaccinated. Every vaccinated healthcare worker not only gets personal protection against Covid — but protects patients from infection by them. In the coming months, this beneficent circle of protection will spread. But as we yearn for quicker roll-out — as a sixty-plus, I registered instantly on the government site — some thorny public health,...