The cost of war is immense. The loss of life is incomprehensible, and the destruction wrought an unimaginable prospect. Closer to home the cost war in Ukraine, driven by Russian aggression, has deep financial impacts on a South African populace struggling to make ends meet. War in Eastern Europe will drive up fuel costs, create …
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“Textbook Ramaphosa” is how Business Day has described the president’s “deft two-step” to appoint acting chief justice Raymond Zondo to the post permanently and elevating President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, Judge Mandisa Maya to the deputy chief justice role held by Zondo. It has been a slow and eventful road …
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Our politicians don’t think they have to stand up and answer to the citizens they are meant to serve. It’s becoming commonplace for them not to take accountability for what they do and say, and such an action was on full display again this week when Fikile Mbalula refused to answer a question from a …
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Energy minister Gwede Mantashe is thoroughly caught up with Bosasa in the latest release from the Zondo commission reports. Part three released last week, detailed how the ANC chairperson received R300 000 worth of security upgrades at his home from the company that had close ties to the ANC. Mantashe maintains he has done nothing wrong, …
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What is Fikile Mbalula thinking when he tweets out that he has landed in Ukraine over the weekend with no explanation or reasoning for being there, and come Monday morning, he fails to answer a question from the media about his cryptic tweet? For the record, there’s simply no way Mbalula set foot in Ukraine. …
In his weekly address, President Cyril Ramaphosa is adamant that peace and an end to the war in Ukraine must be hashed out between Russia and Ukraine at the negotiating table, rather than through the barrel of a loaded gun. He has also justified SA’s abstention from voting on a resolution at the United Nations …
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What if Thabo Mbeki decided to safeguard the independence of the justice system and pushed forward with his original plans for the privatisation of state-owned enterprises? His successor, Jacob Zuma leveraged the justice system and SOEs to his advantage, placing key allies in positions at the National Prosecuting Authority and SOEs before they were hollowed …
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Every so often there comes a piece of writing that is so sobering in its execution of thought and delivery that it takes but a moment for the reality of what has been written to sink in. News24 has released an editorial eviscerating South Africa’s recent foreign policy decision to abstain from a United Nations …
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February capped a good month for President Cyril Ramaphosa writes Justice Malala. The political commentator cites the appointments of Thembisile Majola to the post of director-general at the State Security Agency, Andrea Johnson as head of the Investigating Directorate (ID) at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), and the removal of Zuma appointee Khehla Sitole from …
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Is Thabo Mbeki ready to step back into active politics and out of the naughty corner he was pushed into following his 2008 recall by the ANC? Stephen Grootes thinks as much and focuses his latest piece in Daily Maverick on the subject. He writes at length about Mbeki’s recent trip to the Free State …
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