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In this theatre of fools it is not the managers that matter. It is the director and scriptwriter at the top of government that is the problem
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula may have had the best intentions when he fired the useless board at the helm of the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) and replaced it with an administrator in the person of Bongisizwe Mpondo.
The party led by Julius Malema believes it has a solution to the problems of collapsed state entities that have dragged the economy down with them
Signing the Traditional & Khoi-San Leadership Bill into law grabs the land rights of 18-million people who live in communal areas, particularly in the former Bantustans, and hands them to a bunch of rarely accountable men
For more than a year now deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo has been listening to all sorts of crooks lying under oath.
After presiding over the most successful BEE transaction in SA’s history, MultiChoice Group has taken steps that will subtly reverse some of the gains of the black investors in the SA unit. In a scheme that must be taken up by October 28,…
SAA and its group of companies have been in steady decline since around 1994, when the ANC came to power. That steady decline has turned into a free-fall over the past 10 years.
It was only a matter of time before government found a scapegoat for the xenophobic violence gripping SA.
The official government Twitter account said, after Uyinene Mrwetyana’s death: “Violence and abuse against women have no place in our society. Government is calling on women to speak out, and not allow themselves to be victims by keeping…
There’s something about politicians once they leave office – voluntarily or otherwise. Suddenly they see the world in clear, simple terms. Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas’s new book, After Dawn: Hope after State Capture,…
The Guptas must be smiling all the way to their cash vaults. The £100,000 (R1.8m) monthly retainer they paid disgraced public relations firm Bell Pottinger for two years to besmirch SA may well have been the best investment they made –…
The darkest hour is just before dawn. Or so they say. But our long, dark night seems to go on forever.Economically and politically, the new dawn has long been promised. But alas, the sun refuses to rise.
I can imagine the comrades carrying her on their shoulders and singing: Phakaaaama Nomvula, ixesha lisondele. Uniiiity maqabane, ixesha lisondele! Singing and dancing and marching. Towards the stage they march in step, throwing their…
So winter is almost over and you haven’t had any load-shedding? And you think that means things are going well? Think again.
The radical economic transformation of the Jacob Zuma years has come full circle. The chickens have come home to roost. Welcome to the Banana Republic of SA!
