Ferial Haffajee writes a piece on the part-time caterer and social media star Zamaswazi Zinhle Majozi, who is the sixteenth alleged instigator of the riots that rippled across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng last month in the wake of former president Jacob Zuma’s arrest. Haffajee writes: “In court, Majozi cut a haggard and lonely figure – far …
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Business Day published an excellent analysis of the debacle surrounding the Competition Commissions block on the sale of Burger King and subsequent approval of the sale to a US-based equity firm. The fast-food franchise would be sold by Grand Parade Investments to Emerging Capital Partners with the initial block from the Competition Commission around concerns …
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For the first time since President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his testimony at the Zondo Commission, former deputy minister of finance, Mcebisi Jonas is speaking out about why he, Ramaphosa, Pravin Gordhan and others felt it necessary to stay in government while the institutions all around them were captured by the Guptas and their ilk. In …
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Seven years ago, economists warned that the Zuma years would plunge the country into an unemployment crisis and at the time the country was 10% better off in the unemployment statistics than what it is now. Of the 39.5 million South Africans between the ages of 15 to 64 only around 14.9 million are currently …
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The news of the shocking murder of senior Gauteng civil servant, Babita Deokaran on Monday morning, sent shockwaves throughout the country. Deokaran, the chief director of financial accounting in the Gauteng Department of Health, was a key witness in the Special Investigating Unit’s probe into fraudulent Covid-19 PPE contracts, while the country was desperately battling …
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Yesterday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech for people 16 years and older. The approval was a first for a coronavirus vaccine in the US after the vaccine was granted emergency use back in December. Now the hope is that the announcement will boost vaccination drives across the country as …
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Late on Sunday evening reports started filtering through that social media was ablaze with inflammatory messages advocating for violence and making the country ungovernable. While fears of further unrest following July’s violent protests in the wake of the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma, may have been in the back of many people’s minds, South …
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From today anyone over the age of 18 can register for and take the Covid-19 vaccination. It was a bold move taken by the government yesterday to get the jab into more South Africans arms as vaccine hesitancy becomes rife throughout the country. Much has been written over the past while about anti-vaxxers and those …
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Yesterday the announcement was made that the government was exploring a mandatory pension system that would see employees pay as much as 12% of their monthly salary into a state-run pension fund. Minister for social development, Lindiwe Zulu, published the proposals in a Green Paper on comprehensive social security and retirement reform for public comment. …
Following the withdrawal of US troops from the country leading to the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban gaining power, South African academic Dr Greg Mills spoke with News24 about the immediate consequences of Taliban rule. In a lengthy analysis compiled by reporter James de Villiers, Mills, who served as a special advisor …
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