Will Cyril go to jail? Will Groenewald be president? Is the GNU cooked?
The Phala Phala impeachment process, the DA cabinet scramble and the upcoming election have all raised the temperature in the SA political pan. Voters are speculating, pundits are placing bets, and podcasters add some flavour.
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News Focus: Rietspruit River bridge and fake transformation
Reports of school pupils in Emfuleni being compelled to find their own way across the stinking, polluted Rietspruit River because an unfinished bridge on which work began 24 years ago has been abandoned is yet another illustration of how South
The futility of trying to lock up software
The Trump administration wraps itself in the language of freedom, but reaches for the hammer of tyranny as soon as they see something screwy.
Ports: South Africa leads the world in improvement, trails it in performance
The 2025 Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) findsthat Durban recorded the largest single-year efficiency gain of any port in the world between 2024 and 2025. Coega (Ngqura) was also among the top five most improved globally. Port Elizabeth leads all
Our three hapless two-term presidents
Since the demise of the parliamentary sovereignty of the white component of SA and its replacement with constitutional democracy under the rule of law, there have been three two-term presidents in SA. Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded one-term Nelson Mandela, our
The Battle for Language
Admittedly I can’t remember the last time a woman was last angry with me, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t smack her on the bottom and tell her to shut up and make me a martini. Doesn’t work, that kind
Why should SA keep policy that has failed the poor, IRR asks
After 25 years of BEE policy, Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau “must explain why South Africa should persist with race-based laws that have failed the poor when workable alternatives exist to empower the disadvantaged directly”. This is the
Ramaphosa vs Parliament
Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest developments surrounding the impeachment committee, Park Tau’s defence of BEE, and Helen Zille’s meeting with March and March. https://www.youtube.com/live/yTpf90nBxCo?si=UXSb-cd-wR9z6PLJ
What is to be done about the PIE Act?
The housing minister’s proposed amendment bill is no solution to the problems posed by the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act of 1998 (“the PIE Act”), as outlined in these pages last week. How then