Do any of us think opportunistic politicians will come to some realisation that we have hit absolute rock bottom when it comes to the public trust that government institutions will do the bare minimum and not steal funds meant to help the citizens they have been elected to serve? Sunday Times Daily writes as bad …
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It’s an indictment on the party itself that we already assume there will be fraud and corruption wherever the ANC is involved in governing. Yesterday we brought you the opinions of those who believe the party will automatically steal funding meant to help with relief efforts in the flood ravished KwaZulu-Natal. Stephen Grootes writes today …
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As the clean-up and relief operations begin in earnest in KwaZulu-Natal amid the devastating floods that have ravished the province, it is estimated that around 40,000 people have been displaced from their homes. Subsequently, the flooding has forced the government’s hand to place the country under another state of disaster, which will unlock much-needed funding …
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Will former president Jacob Zuma ever see the inside of a courtroom after his corruption trial along with French arms dealer Thales was postponed yet again in the Pietermaritzburg High Court last week? It’s a question Adriaan Basson has tackled and the News24 editor writes it’s not only Zuma’s fault that the corruption trial has …
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The EFF has made enemy number one out of businessman Johann Rupert. The man behind Remgro was the target of another EFF protest last week when the red berets descended on his Stellenbosch wine farms and Remgro’s head offices to hand over a memorandum of demands that must be met within 14 days. Rupert has …
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Opposition parties need to catch a wake-up call and capitalise on the bumbling ANC, writes Justice Malala and asks how after 28 years of democracy there hasn’t been a single opposition party capable of dethroning the ANC from national power? Malala writes that the country has been on a stagnation course since 2008 yet there …
In today’s opinions, week look at some writers who have penned some thought-provoking pieces on the state of South Africa’s justice system. Judith February writes that the Judicial Services Commission led by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is far more dignified, William Gumede argues that law firms need to band together to agree on an anti-corruption …
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In today’s opinions, John Matisonn calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a modern-day Mandela and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin a Hendrik Verwoerd, Tim Cohen writes about his displeasure with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), and Justice Malala writes about the killings in Diepsloot. Malala writes about the inhumanity shown by a vigilante mob when they killed …
You would think that after all South Africans have been through, we’d shy away from any sort of nationalism and rather embrace the values of ubuntu, non-racialism, non-sexism and a united spirit. But the launch of the Cape Forum this week and an emboldened Afriforum has News24 covering South Africa’s flirtation with nationalism in the …
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Why did judge David Unterhalter have a much tougher interview at the recent JSC hearings to fill two vacant positions on the Constitutional Court compared to the other candidates that were interviewed for the job? News24 spoke to two legal experts, judge Dennis Davis of the Western Cape high court and executive secretary of the …
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