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Bantu Holomisa agrees to be UDM’s Eastern Cape premier candidate 
By: Thabi Shomolekae 29th April 2024 The United Democratic Movement announced the availability of its leader Bantu Holomisa as the Premier candidate for the Eastern Cape, saying should... →
Eskom warns political parties against placing posters on electrical structures
By: Thabi Shomolekae 29th April 2024 Ahead of the upcoming May 29 elections, State-owned power utility Eskom has cautioned all political parties against the “dangerous practice” of... →
SA Tourism recovers R35-million linked to irregular payments, services not rendered
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 5 hours ago Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille revealed on Monday that R35-million linked to irregular payments, and for services not rendered, has been... →
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How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
29th April 2024 Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous... →
Owning a gun in South Africa offers some safety, but risks run high for users and society – expert
29th April 2024 South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, eclipsed only by Honduras and a handful of Caribbean island states. Furthermore,... →
South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs
26th April 2024 South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major... →
Boko Haram factional violence worries Islamic State
26th April 2024 In its quest to expand beyond North East Nigeria, JAS–ISWAP clashes aren’t in the global terror group’s interests. In October 2023, Boko Haram’s... →
Recommendations
With Regard to Borders and Ballots
29th April 2024 The IEC has confirmed that South Africa has 340 parties registered provincially and nationally and thus eligible to participate in the 2024... →
The Making of Manifestos and the Marginalisation of Migrants: A Causal Link?
29th April 2024 Election fever has been ratcheted up several notches over the past few weeks, as one by one various political parties have launched their election... →
Triple billion targets policy solutions matrix
26th April 2024 The Triple Billion Targets Policy Solutions Matrix has been developed to help bridge the step from data to delivery by collating some of the latest... →
Global economic fracturing and shifting investment patterns
26th April 2024 The report spotlights 10 major shifts in global foreign direct investment (FDI). It reveals how the combination of structural transformations in... →
Statements
It’s the Final Countdown! – 30 Days To Election Day
Updated 5 hours ago The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) marks the official 30-day countdown to the 29th of May National and Provincial Election. In marking the final four... →
WC unanimously rejects BELA Bill in final mandate
Updated 5 hours ago The Western Cape Provincial Parliament's Standing Committee on Education today met to consider the final version of the controversial Basic... →
Ramaphosa’s henchmen must leave media freedom alone
Updated 5 hours ago The DA is deeply concerned by allegations that the SABC Group’s Head of News, Moshoeshoe Monare, is being intimidated by the State Security Agency... →
KwaDukuza municipality uses public funds for election campaigning
Updated 5 hours ago The ANC-led KwaDukuza municipality continues to use public funding for veiled campaigning. An accelerated service delivery programme has been... →
Press Offices
LAC finds that an employee who was dimissed for recreational cannabis use at home was unfairly discriminated against
29th April 2024 In the recent case of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a Division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd (JA86/22) [2024] ZALAC (23 April... →
Herbert Smith Freehills promotes Ernst Müller to director in Johannesburg
29th April 2024 Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is promoting Ernst Müller to director. His appointment takes effect on 1 May 2024. Ernst is... →
How the two-pot system will affect the hospitality industry
29th April 2024 Allowing financially stretched fund members to withdraw a limited amount of money from their pension savings from what’s known as a savings pot,... →
Shaping Tomorrow – Women at the Forefront of Science and IP
26th April 2024 As we celebrate World Intellectual Property Day, our focus is on the remarkable contributions of innovative South African individuals, specifically... →
