Former health minister Zweli Mkhize is trying to become the next president of South Africa but to do that he would first need to win the ANC presidency at its next elective conference due to be held later this year. Mkhize has a few hurdles to jump before he can consider himself a proper contender …
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The minister of sports, arts & culture, Nathi Mthethwa, wants to spend a whopping R22 million on erecting a massive 100-metre-tall flagpole with the expected aim of creating social cohesion and serving as a monument to our democracy. The plan to install the giant pole in Pretoria’s Freedom Park was recently unveiled but it comes …
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The timing of the ANC elective conference at the end of the year puts incumbent President Cyril Ramaphosa in a precarious position whether he wins or manages to lose to an expected challenger from the radical economic transformation (RET) faction. Sydney Majoko argues that if Ramaphosa is to win at the conference scheduled for December, …
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In today’s opinions, we’re covering a looming interest rate hike expected from the SA Reserve Bank this week, the recent ANC elective conference in the Eastern Cape, which was won by Eastern Cape premier and Cyril Ramaphosa ally Oscar Mabuyane, and US activist Bill Browder’s ominous warning about Russian President Vladimir Putin for South Africa. …
The collapse of Steinhoff is arguably the largest business scandal in history to rock South Africa when former CEO, Markus Jooste, resigned in December 2017, and the company’s share price went on to plunge 90% as it emerged profits and assets had been overstated by nearly $12 billion. Fast forward to 2022, and in a …
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We’ve been told for some time that coalition politics will become the new normal for South Africa’s highly contested political battleground, and it would be easy to make the argument that coalition politics is already the status quo if we’re looking at the past two municipal elections in 2016 and 2021 respectively. What would be …
The big news over the past two weeks has been SA-born billionaire Elon Musk’s pending acquisition of Twitter and what the Tesla and Space X chief executive’s new ownership will bring to the bluebird social network? The most recent news is Musk’s securing of $7.1 billion (around R111 billion) worth of financing for his $44 …
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen’s recent visit to Ukraine sparked much debate on the internet over what exactly SA’s opposition leader was trying to achieve and why the DA would sanction sending him to Ukraine in the first place? Qaanitah Hunter writes that Steenhuisen looked more like a pseudo war correspondent as he posted …
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If the EFF does, indeed, form its own union, as party leader Julius Malema indicated in a May Day rally over the weekend, it would hasten the inevitable fall of the ANC while also causing a war between rival union Cosatu and the new EFF variant as they jostle for members and turf, writes political …
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In today’s opinions, we have a debt of gratitude owed to the men and women who worked countlessly during the Jacob Zuma administration to thwart the Gupta family from ramming home some of their heinous acts, writes Business Day. Had it not been for the likes of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister and former treasury …
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