October 26, 2023
South Africa: 'Reimagining of Parliament' Thwarted By Patchy Application of State Capture Report Proposals
Some 16 months ago, the Zondo Commission formally handed in its report, which sharply criticised Parliament for the shoddy oversight that allowed State Capture. The question… Read more »
South Africa: Multi-Party Charter's Long Walk to 2024 Election Starts With Convincing Voters the ANC Can Lose
With the Electoral Commission's public suggestion this week that next year's polls should be as close to May as possible, we may now be less than seven months away from an… Read more »
October 25, 2023
South Africa: World Cup Final Will Add Another Epic Chapter to the Greatest Rivalry in Rugby
The Springboks versus the All Blacks is the greatest rivalry in rugby and one of the greatest in all of sport. The two sides contest the final of Rugby World Cup 2023 at Stade de… Read more »
South Africa: State-Owned Enterprise Recommendations Gather Dust While Ailing Eskom, Transnet Suck Billions of Rands
Aside from recommendations on prosecuting board members, executives and others at state-owned enterprises (SOEs) implicated in State Capture -- and not just Eskom -- declaring… Read more »
South Africa: More Than 15,000 Excess Deaths Feared If Country Doesn't Shut Coal-Fired Power Plants - Study
What is the cost of extending the life of our coal plants? A new study finds that delaying the decommissioning of our coal fleet may help with load shedding, but it will cause… Read more »
South Africa: Western Cape Races to Repair Roads After Destructive Downpours On Heritage Day Weekend
Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said damaged roads needed to be reopened ahead of the festive season so that the provincial economy could benefit. Read more »
South Africa: The South African Air Force Has Become an Expensive, Dysfunctional Luxury
The funding crisis has become so severe that defence pundits are proposing the hitherto unthinkable -- that South Africa reduce its Air Force to just an Air Wing, which comprises… Read more »
South Africa: Anglo American, Coal Producers to Be Slapped With Class Action Over Miners' Lung Diseases
In an effort to rectify mining injustices, human rights lawyers at Richard Spoor Inc have filed a class action suit against some of South Africa's biggest mining companies, on… Read more »
October 24, 2023
South Africa: Student Funding Body CEO Fired By Board Over Student Payment Irregularities and Conflicts of Interest
NSFAS board chairperson Ernest Khosa told Parliament that Andile Nongogo has been dismissed from the entity. Nongogo had been in the firing line over a conflict of interest in the… Read more »
South Africa: 'Your Democracy, Own It' - IEC Launches Campaign for Next Year's Poll
The Electoral Commission has launched its 2024 national and provincial election campaign and has called on voters to register under the theme 'Your democracy, own it.' Read more »
South Africa: 'Mr X's' Testimony At Lily Mine Inquest Paints Chilling Picture of Illegal Mining Facilitated By Employees
The findings from the Lily Mine inquest included first-hand accounts of the mine's collapse in 2016 as well as extensive allegations of illegal mining, which was allegedly… Read more »
South Africa: Watchdogs Call for Criminal Charges After UPL's Contaminated Water Pours Into Durban River - Again
Toxic chemical residue from the old UPL warehouse has overflowed into the Ohlange River in Durban once more, just days after government authorities warned the company it faced… Read more »
South Africa: Sanral Board Withdraws Controversial Preferential Procurement Policy, Cancels Advertised Tenders
About 80 Sanral tenders that are yet to close -- with a value of more than R11bn -- will be affected by the board's decision to withdraw a new preferential procurement policy, with… Read more »
South Africa: Media Speculates Reserve Bank's Kuben Naidoo Could Be a Great Fit for Nedbank
Nedbank has firmly declined to comment on media speculation that the South African Reserve Bank's Kuben Naidoo could be a great fit for its open CEO position. Read more »
South Africa: R20 Billion or 20 Years - What a Single Rural Municipality Needs to Provide Water to Residents
Protesters from communities across the Eastern Cape have promised 'harsher action' if their objections about the lack of water services, poor quality of water and high water bills… Read more »
South Africa: National Consumer Commission Finally Rolls Out Online Complaints Portal
The NCC says the new online portal will help expedite the handling of consumer complaints. Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa/South Africa: Banyana Banyana Eye First-Leg Advantage in Crucial Olympic Games Qualifier Against DR Congo
Banyana Banyana missed out on Olympic qualification for Tokyo 2020. With the next Games under a year away in France, the team is keen to book their place in Paris. It starts with a… Read more »
October 23, 2023
South Africa: Ruling ANC Removes Errant MPs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Expected to Face Disciplinary Charges
The ANC is removing members of Parliament who failed to attend sittings and disciplining those who have not toed the party line. Read more »
South Africa: Gold One Mine 'Hostage' Drama Signals Possible End of NUM-AMCU Honeymoon
More than 500 National Union of Mineworkers members are allegedly being 'held hostage' at the Gold One mine on the East Rand by the rival Association of Mineworkers and… Read more »
South Africa: Shortage of Poultry Products Will Continue Into the New Year, Warns Meat Importers' Association
The Association of Meat Importers and Exporters says permits take time to issue and even if they are expedited, it still takes weeks for imports to arrive on our shores. Read more »
South Africa: Kuben Naidoo Resigns As SA Reserve Bank Deputy Governor
Naidoo's successor must have the blessing of the ANC, and, according to one analyst who spoke to Daily Maverick on condition of anonymity, there is no real succession plan in the… Read more »
South Africa: New Push for Coal Mine On Kruger National Park Boundary Raises Alarm
An obscure mining company has revived a rejected proposal under a new name - and Kruger management says it has been kept in the dark about an environmental impact assessment that… Read more »
Eswatini: Eswatini Democracy Activists Reject Dialogue to Be Chaired By Mswati III
Activists calling for political reforms in Eswatini have rejected a national dialogue that the government says will be held under the framework of traditional laws and structures.… Read more »
South Africa: City of Cape Town to Restart Massive Housing Project Stalled By Extortion and Murder
Plans are afoot to restart the City of Cape Town's biggest housing project -- which stalled after extortion attempts and the murder of an official -- in the first quarter of next… Read more »
October 22, 2023
South Africa: Never Give Up, Never Say Die - a Love Letter to Our Country After 'That RWC Game'
That's what the past two weekends have felt like after a couple of exhilarating, exhausting Rugby World Cup matches - first at a packed and partisan Stade de France for the… Read more »