The SABC unwittingly screened a protest on Friday – but had no idea that it was doing so and that the protest taking place right under chief operating officer Hlaudi…
Nkandla ruling seems to be the tip of the Zuma iceberg as opposition parties have found that the South African President must pay R63.9m in Nkandla tax benefits. President Jacob…
Thuli Madonsela is pulling out all the stops in her investigation of allegations that the controversial Gupta family has attempted state capture. The Treasury has undertaken to give Madonsela an…
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has condemned its own public broadcaster for practicing censorship by not broadcasting images of violent anti-state protests. Various civil society and…
New York City made history today with passage of the nation’s first legislative package to ensure access to menstrual products in public schools, shelters and corrections facilities. In doing so,…
“I am a normal South African who happens to be extremely pissed off at you.” These words appear in one of Kavisha Pillay’s frequent missives addressed to President Jacob Zuma….
Ensuing and ever-deepening crises surrounding South Africa’s President are testing the resilience of the young democracy’s institutions. Concerns that the ruling African National Party (ANC) does not have the political…
In his first public speech since delivering his decisive judgment against President Jacob Zuma and parliament in the Constitutional Court, Chief Justice Mogoeng has spoken of the need for ethical…
As “persuasion and appeal have failed”‚ an alliance of civil society‚ church‚ trade union and academic organisations will on Wednesday announce a plan for “the people…to reclaim our hard-won democracy…
Nkandla scandal highlights widespread disappointment over ANC leadership’s failure to address deep-rooted problems The proposition to impeach Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s much criticised president, reflects broader, rising public discontent with…
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