The Bronkhorstspruit water crisis: Reform and actual caring needed
The crisis over contaminated water in Bronkhorstspruit is ultimately due to sheer dereliction of duty by the Mayor of Tshwane, Nasiphi Moya, and senior officials.
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Why does COSATU continue to be irrelevant to the labour force?
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is the largest labour federation, but it continues to bleed members, declining from 2.2 million to roughly 1.6 million between 2012 and the subsequent reporting period. This is due to poor leadership,
Wellbeing: a future legal consequence of definition
The South African Constitutional Court has handed down a judgement to dismiss the South African (SA) Hunters and Game Conservation Association’s application to have the animal wellbeing provisions in the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) declared unconstitutional and invalid.
DA set to become biggest party in SA's cities
Nicholas Lorimer and Michael Morris discuss the latest polling from various outlets and what it suggests about next week’s local government elections. They also discuss allegations that the state spy agency tried to infiltrate the EFF. Lastly, they examine how
Citizenship belongs to the citizen, not to the state
There is something profoundly sinister in the suggestion that South Africans who supposedly spread misinformation about the country abroad should be stripped of their citizenship. First advanced by ANC MP Supra Mahumapelo (who seems now to have walked it back)
Ducking, diving, deflecting and deferring on the Glenister rules will not do
The law in SA on countering the corrupt and dealing with organised crime is quite plain. It has been spelt out in successive appeals to the Constitutional Court in the Glenister litigation, a saga waged between 2008 and 2014 that
Treasury tells the SANDF to make do
On 16 October, Parliament’s defence committee asked for an urgent meeting between the finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, and the defence minister, Angie Motshekga. The committee, chaired by Molefi Legoete, wanted agreed costings and dates for stopping the department’s salary overspending
Skin in the game: beyond BEE
Recently, leading South African commentators including Professor William Gumede, the IRR’s Dr Anthea Jeffery and Moeletsi Mbeki have advocated the scrapping of BEE.
Bronkhorstspruit: Political accountability cannot replace administrative responsibility
There is something profoundly wrong with a municipality that can supply water without chlorination for three weeks without preventing it or, at the very least, warning residents.