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Opinions of the Day: We just don’t trust government with KZN flood relief funds

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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Opinions of the Day: From Zuma’s use of the legal system to sustainable corruption in SA

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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Opinions of the Day: Opposition parties need to wise up to the ANC while the RET faction continues to survive

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 …

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Opinions of the Day: Taking a closer look at SA’s legal system

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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Opinions of the Day: From Zelensky as the new Mandela to the inhumanity of the Diepsloot killings

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 …

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