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The DA have demanded that ANC Ministers, associates, and spouses pay their own way after spending R45 million on luxury flights since 2014.

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Secretary for Defence Gladys Kudjoe. defenceWeb’s first major foray into the world of virtual conferencing takes place tomorrow – Tuesday, 25 May – with more than 270 signed up to hear views and opinions from some top people in the South African aerospace and defence sectors. The headline attraction in terms of speakers lined up for the inaugural defenceWebinar is Gladys Sonto Kudjoe, who took over from long-serving Sam Gulube as Secretary for Defence in Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s Defence and Military Veterans’ Ministry last August. The man current...

  The death of Nelson Mandela, at age 95 on 5 December 2013, brings genuine sadness. As his health deteriorated over the past six months, many asked the more durable question:  how did he change South Africa ? Given how unsatisfactory life is for so many in society, the follow-up question is,  how much room was there for Mandela to maneuver ? South Africa now lurches from crisis to crisis, and so many of us are tempted to remember the Mandela years – especially the first democratic government – as fundamentally different from the crony-capitalist, corruption-riddled, brutally-securitis...

Share The University of Pretoria (UP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have launched a report that looks at the role that business and the private sector played during South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. Titled Business in the Time of Transition (BiTSA), the project began in 2019 when the ILO and UP’s Centre for Mediation in Africa in the Department of Political Sciences embarked on a project to capture this story. The project has now culminated in a report as well as an accompanying website containing various multimedia resources that explore who busine...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - South African soldiers at a medal parade in DR Congo. Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for a professional public service in his latest Presidential Newsletter has drawn wide response, including from a respected defence analyst who takes the history of South Africa’s democratic national defence force as an object lesson. Going back to the early days of democracy in 1994, Helmoed Heitman points to Joe Modise, the first defence minister of the democratic era. “He specifically precluded replacing general and flag officers with MK personnel because they did not have...