March 07, 2023
South Africa: Revenue Service Finds Phala Phala and Ramaphosa Tax-Compliant After Rigorous Audits
A tax compliance statement issued by SARS indicates that the $4m sale of game at president Cyril Ramaphosa's Phala Phala farm in 2020 has been declared. Now SA Revenue Service… Read more »
March 06, 2023
South Africa: Metaphorical Blood On the Floor With Thuli Madonsela Vs Dali Mpofu
She was not appearing 'to play games', said Professor Thuli Madonsela, on Monday. The former Public Protector was addressing the Section 194 impeachment inquiry into her successor,… Read more »
March 07, 2023
South Africa: Cabinet Reshuffle Leaves SA Just One Presidential Scandal Away From a Chaotic Mashatile-EFF Collaboration
Songezo Zibi is the Chairman of the Rivonia Circle and author of Manifesto - A New Vision for South Africa. He is part of the Rise Campaign. Read more »
South Africa: A Presidency Overhaul, Some Surprises and Expected Departures
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reconstituted his Presidency with a new minister in the Presidency and two new deputies, a new electricity minister in the Presidency and the return… Read more »
South Africa: New Cabinet Gets Thumbs Up From Tripartite Alliance, While DA Slams 'Failure to Show Backbone'
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his reconfigured Cabinet from the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday night. While the ANC's alliance partners welcomed the changes, the DA… Read more »
March 01, 2023
South Africa: Opposition Calls for Probe of Phala Phala Saga After Constitutional Court Rules Against Ramaphosa
Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said the judgment 'is not a blow to the President' and Ramaphosa's legal team would weigh its options. Read more »
South Africa: Outgoing Deputy President the Latest ANC Member to Resign From Parliament
The resignation of Deputy President David Mabuza indicates his imminent departure from President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet. Read more »
February 27, 2023
South Africa: ANC's Reaction to Eskom Revelations Exposes a Party in Denial of Reality and in a Deep Ethical Crisis
The party is under intense strain and could easily fall in the elections next year to an unprecedented minority level. This is what makes its response to the claims of corruption… Read more »
South Africa: Culture of Corruption Runs Deep Within the ANC, and Shielding Its Members From Accountability Is the Party's Choice
Corruption has become an essential part of the way politics is conducted within the ANC, which means any credible attempts to address it would require the party to take radical… Read more »
February 26, 2023
South Africa: Attacks On André De Ruyter - Mbalula Takes a Leaf Out of the Joseph Goebbels Playbook
Paul Hoffman SC is a director of Accountability Now. Read more »
February 22, 2023
South Africa: Godongwana Attempts to Heal Government's Self-Inflicted Wounds
The presentation of a national Budget is often a slightly strange affair; it is the prose of governance after what is supposed to be the poetry of the State of the Nation Address.… Read more »
South Africa: Extra R23bn for Health 'Won't Fix Systemic Problems'
Public health experts caution that more detail is needed about how an extra R23 billion allocated to the Department of Health by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in his 2023… Read more »
South Africa: Godongwana's Speech a Blunt Instrument to Stabilise State's Foundering Ship
Stripped of plants, allegories, literary quotes and Bible verses, the 2023 Budget was blunt -- a stable finance framework for savings, investment and growth, structural reforms,… Read more »
February 23, 2023
South Africa: Power Utility CEO Released From Duty 'With Immediate Effect'
Eskom CEO André De Ruyter has left his job a month earlier than planned after reaching an agreement with the board. His early exit follows a candid interview on political… Read more »
February 22, 2023
South Africa: Inside Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng's Messy Exit From UCT
At the eleventh hour, University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng jumped before she was pushed -- avoiding suspension by the UCT Council by coming to an agreement on… Read more »
February 21, 2023
South Africa: Even the Opposition Cheers As Gauteng Premier Lesufi Announces the Scrapping of E-Tolls
There were sighs of relief, cheers and applause inside the Johannesburg City Hall on Monday night when Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced the 'permanent' demise of disastrous e-tolls… Read more »
February 20, 2023
South Africa: Finance Minister Godongwana's To-Do List Is Long
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana must put the rands and cents to President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address political promises. It's an unenviable task - without… Read more »
February 19, 2023
South Africa: Flood Wreaks Havoc On Eastern Cape After Weekend of Torrential Rain
The body of a six-year-old was recovered on Sunday afternoon while workers are still searching for his mother and his four-year-old sister. Another two boys are missing but… Read more »
South Africa: SA Bottled Water Association Fires Back Over Claims of 'Toxic' Mineral Water
SA water producers say researchers from Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University misunderstood and misinterpreted the results of their own study. Read more »
February 20, 2023
South Africa: SA Weather Service Issues Alerts As Govt Responds to Flood Chaos
The government has declared a National State of Disaster to enable an 'intensive, coordinated response' to the floods that have devastated parts of seven of South Africa's nine… Read more »
February 19, 2023
Southern Africa: Who Killed Thulani Maseko? Deafening Silence About a Serious Investigation
A month has passed since the assassination of Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko. However, there seems to be little political will in Eswatini or the SADC to investigate the… Read more »
February 18, 2023
South Africa: DA Leaders Back Steenhuisen Ahead of April Federal Congress, but Phalatse Confident of Winning Leadership Race
Five provincial leaders back the incumbent, but the challenger says it's time for a black woman to steer the ship. Read more »
February 17, 2023
South Africa: V&A Waterfront - Consuming Itself, a Greedy Bite At a Time
It's the Monaco of Cape Town, a playground for the super-rich in a city infamously neglectful of its poor. Cut off, more than ever, from the city of which it is supposedly a part,… Read more »
South Africa: Nomzamo Park Tavern Massacre Trial Moved After Protesters Threaten to Burn Down Orlando Courthouse
The trial of six people charged with the Nomzamo Park, Soweto, tavern massacre has been moved to the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court after protesters threatened to burn down the… Read more »
February 16, 2023
South Africa: Three Years On, Court Finally Sentences Ruthless Glebelands Hostel Gang Leaders to Jail
The Glebelands 8 were 'a law unto themselves' who 'executed their opponents brazenly', said Judge Nkosinathi Chili in sentencing the gang leaders in the Pietermaritzburg High Court… Read more »