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UDM to join ANC court action on candidate lists

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The UDM will join the ANC’s court action to reopen the process to submit candidates for the local government election. The ANC claimed that it

Vaccines should be mandatory – Karim

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Salim Abdool Karim, a former head of the government’s advisory committee on Covid-19, has said that the vaccine to combat the virus should be made

No staff salaries as ANC money woes deepen

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The African National Congress (ANC) announced that its office would be closed ‘as of’ yesterday because of what it called a ‘wildcat strike’ by staff

Gukurahundi casts long shadow

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The Gukurahundi, the massacre of Ndebele Zimbabweans in the early 1980s by the government of Robert Mugabe, continues to cast a long shadow. It is

Top health whistleblower’s death ‘was a hit’ – report

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The ‘execution-style’ killing of Gauteng Department of Health chief director of financial accounting, Babita Deokaran, was ‘an organised hit on her’, according to the director

‘Xi Jinping thought’ centre of new communist curriculum in China

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Helping teenagers ‘establish Marxist beliefs’ is the core objective of a new political ideology – ‘Xi Jinping thought’ – being introduced into China’s national curriculum.

Music and the man: Charlie Watts remembered

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Tributes have poured in from the popular music pantheon at the news of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ death in London this week. Watts

Unions want basic income grant in 2022

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Organised labour has called for a Basic Income Grant (BIG) to be introduced permanently in 2022. In a statement this week, the Congress of South

Boucher apologises for nicknames with ‘racial connotations’

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Proteas head coach Mark Boucher has said it was common for players to be given nicknames with racial connotations during his career, and that while

Far-right leader jailed for burning stolen BLM flag

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Enrique Tarrio, leader of the far-right all-male Proud Boys group in the United States has been sentenced to nearly six months in jail for burning