Editorial

Investigative journalism unit amabhungane released a report this morning on the Daily Maverick website, which finally provided Durbanites with some answers as to what exactly poisoned the rivers, air and beaches in Durban after a fire broke out at a United Phosphorus Limited warehouse last month in the wake of the protesting following former president …

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Yesterday shockwaves reverberated throughout the world as the Taliban sacked the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul and stunning images taken from inside the presidential palace of the organisations top officials made its way onto our screens. President Ashraf Ghani meanwhile is said to have left the presidential palace yesterday morning en-route to the US embassy …

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After two days of testimony from President Cyril Ramaphosa before acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, there were a couple of sobering moments, like when Ramaphosa threatened to resign after Des van Rooyen was brought in as finance minister but more than that he had little more to …

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Jacob Zuma’s legal team has until August 20 to submit a comprehensive medical report detailing exactly why the former president is unfit to stand trial after his health dramatically declined and he was admitted to a Pretoria hospital. As the Sunday Times Daily writes in its editorial that something doesn’t sound quite right in the …

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The cabinet reshuffle last week was welcome news to many as President Cyril Ramaphosa made changes to his cabinet that included replacing health minister Zweli Mkhize, defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and notably finance minister Tito Mboweni. For Mkhize and Mboweni’s part, they both resigned before the changes were made. There have been calls from within …

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Many South Africans know that under the current electoral system, the state president is often the president of the party that won the majority of votes in the most recent general election. They know that President Ramaphosa is president of both the (mis)governing ANC and the country. They also know that his predecessor in both …

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While anti-vaxxers are gaining momentum in South Africa getting your jab and creating some sort of herd immunity remains the only possible solution to finally defeating the coronavirus. Dr Hanél Sadie-Van Gijsen from Stellenbosch University writes in the Sunday Times Daily that while there are currently 75 ongoing clinical trials in the US for Covid-19 …

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Come next June, Telkom will have a new CEO with its current head honcho Sipho Maseko due to leave the post in 11 months. Maseko announced his resignation from the company last week after turning it around from an ailing state-owned enterprise (the state owns 40.5%) with just three months of cash left in the …

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SAccess is continually improving our platform offering to deliver good business and market news content to our readers. Today we’ll take another significant step in our journey by publishing our first original columnist contribution from Solly Moeng. Moeng is the founder of DonValley Reputation Managers and convenor at Africa Brand Summit and pens a call …

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