15+ hour, 25+ min ago   (761+ words) The latest instalment in the turmoil engulfing the South African Police Service (SAPS) raises an ethical question beyond the personalities occupying senior positions: when a state lawyer advises a public official, to whom does that lawyer owe allegiance? It was…...

15+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1057+ words) There comes a point where legitimate criticism of a national football federation becomes something entirely different: an attempt by a select group of former players, self-appointed “legends” and football personalities to dictate how the country’s football administration should be conducted....

16+ hour, 23+ min ago   (467+ words) Drowning in a slew of criminal charges, alleged Big Five cartel member Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala has also now caught the beady eye of the taxman. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) is targeting his company, Medicare24 Tshwane District, over R14.2m in outstanding…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (664+ words) The irony is difficult to miss: South Africa keeps telling people to blow the whistle, while the people who actually do it are left fighting for their jobs, their reputations and, in Hasane’s case, their safety. Mphuthi’s dismissal from the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (626+ words) Some parties in parliament say the “GN—U bloc” within the impeachment committee is hellbent on “railroading” them at every turn as they prepare for the impeachment inquiry against President Cyril Ramaphosa. The comes after GNU partners — the ANC, the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (545+ words) The ANC has now taken its 2024 municipal candidates list chaos to the Electoral Court, asking it to overturn the Independent Electoral Commission’s decision to refuse to process more than 181 nominations affecting six municipalities because they were not submitted within the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (873+ words) 1972 — Cliff Drysdale and Briton Roger Taylor win the US Open men’s doubles crown at Forest Hills in New York, beating Australians Owen Davidson and John Newcombe 6-4 7-6 6-3 in the final. Taylor and Newcombe had won the title the previous year. Drysdale…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1749+ words) Almost 55,000 people in South Africa have already had a shot that protects them against HIV for six months at a time, the health department says. Lenacapavir, or LEN, has been available through the health department since June. The injection gives…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (565+ words) The illicit economy has become too big to ignore, and South Africa can no longer afford to treat illicit trade as a peripheral problem for the police, customs officials or individual industries to deal with. A comprehensive study by Econometrix…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (778+ words) As President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed Southern African leaders to Durban in August, municipal workers demanding higher pay littered the streets of Pietermaritzburg with rubbish. eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal’s only metropolitan municipality, presented clean streets to its international guests. Northwest of the coastal…...