Anthea Jeffery

The government plans to criminalise all speech that can be brought within the broad definition of hate speech contained in the Prevention and Combating of

Last Friday the mineral resources and energy portfolio committee met to discuss the impact of the September 2021 Pretoria high court judgment which struck down

Lindiwe Zulu, minister of social development, is seeking to smuggle in a permanent ‘social relief of distress’ grant by means of regulations on which she

Last week the Constitutional Court struck down the Preferential Procurement Regulations (the Regulations) gazetted in 2017 by the then finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, under the

The Zondo commission’s recent reports have provided chapter-and-verse on the fraud and inflated pricing that bedevilled so many of the Gupta-linked procurement contracts entered into

In the past fortnight, two meetings of the Johannesburg metropolitan council have ‘descended into chaos’, in the graphic words of Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John

Now that the ANC’s attempt to rewrite the property clause (Section 25) in the Constitution has been defeated, the ruling party plans to achieve its

The ANC’s failure to secure a two-thirds majority for the EWC (Expropriation without Compensation) Constitutional Amendment Bill (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill) in December

The Daily Friend is rerunning some of our most-read articles over the festive season. This week marks the 27th anniversary of 27th April 1994. This date commemorates

This article was first published on 8 April 2021. Certain events have passed but the article is still pertinent to us going into 2022 [Ed.]