Anthea Jeffery

Last week African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Ace Magashule belatedly responded to public outrage over corruption in Covid-19 procurement with a statement acknowledging the

‘A culture of nepotism, favouritism, and abuse’ ‘If, as public servants and political office-bearers we truly care about the public whose interests we claim to

Most South Africans have little knowledge of Ibram X Kendi, founder of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, newly appointed holder of

Floyd Shivambu, deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), is at it again. In March 2020 he hailed the Covid-19 pandemic, saying this would

Helen Zille, the Democratic Alliance’s federal council chairperson, has recently been castigated for tweets flagging the failures of the African National Congress’s (ANC) ‘armed struggle’

Earlier this week a full bench of the Pretoria high court upheld the use of race as a criterion in the granting of Covid-19 relief

South Africa’s stringent Covid-19 lockdown has largely been lifted with the shift from Level 4 to Level 3 on 1 June. Under Level 3, most

The South African Communist Party (SACP), which has long used its dominance over the African National Congress (ANC) to set the policy agenda for the

The ANC government and many other commentators have stoked enormous fears about Covid-19, while a recent model – developed by the Covid-19 consortium advising the

The risk of compulsory state quarantine for those who have tested positive for Covid-19 is growing. Twice in the past week, in separate speeches in