When ANC delegates head to the party’s elective conference in December they will have to choose between re-electing President Cyril Ramaphosa or another leader who will more than likely be aligned to the Jacob Zuma-supporting grouping known as the Radical Economic Transformation faction. Pieter du Toit | The grim choices for the ANC in December: …
Opinions Today: Much is at stake at the ANC elective conference Read More »
With just 18 months to go until South Africans head to the polls to vote in provincial and national elections, political parties will have to take voter measure and assess where they are falling short and how they can run an effective election campaign. Gareth van Onselen has written a detailed analysis of where the …
Opinions Today: Taking stock of where the ANC and DA are at the moment Read More »
The ANC elective conference in December is building up to be a rematch of the 2017 contest with incumbent party president Cyril Ramaphosa seemingly strolling to re-election but recent events suggest he will face a familiar foe in a challenge to his leadership. Former president Jacob Zuma reportedly urged the KwaZulu-Natal branch to back his …
Opinions Today: Ramaphosa vs Dlamini-Zuma – Round 2 Read More »
Now that new Conservative Party leader Liz Truss has taken office as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, she will have to hit the ground running as she faces the greatest cost of living crisis in decades and the UK hurtles towards another Winter of Discontent. Commentators argue that Truss should forget about the …
As the world begins to reflect on how the Covid-19 outbreak affected us and how each nation responded to the pandemic, there is an idea being promoted that the virus did not hit Africa as hard as it did other places. Nathan Geffen and Francois Venter write that it is easy to promote this view …
Speak to anyone who has gone to work in the United States or has dealt with a US-based business, and you’ll find that getting paid is a culture shock, writes Arthur Goldstuck for Business Times (for subscribers). In many ways, the US banking system is lagging behind the technological advances made by South African …
It looked like a win for the rule of law this week when the Pietermaritzburg high court ordered that VBS Mutual Bank tries to get back some of the R7.8 million mortgage loan that former president Jacob Zuma defaulted on after he was ordered to pay back some of the R250 million used to do …
The last president to preside over the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, died last night in Moscow after what was described as a “difficult and protracted illness.” He was 91 years old. Commentators and historians have a mixed view of the legacy Gorbachev left behind, while many argue he was a reformer who set out …
The appearance of former Transnet chief executive Brian Molefe and former chief financial officer Anoj Singh at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Palm Ridge on the East Rand, show that some accountability is returning to South Africa’s criminal justice system, writes Stephen Grootes. But Grootes worries that for many, the wheels of justice still …
In recent weeks there have been several reports detailing the disturbing rise of construction mafias that have infiltrated the industry and demanded 30% of government tenders or else legitimate businesses face the threat of infrastructure being destroyed, or worse, violent intimidation. In today’s News24 Friday Briefing, the publication has rounded up opinions from those who …
Opinions Today: Lessons from Italy on the construction mafia and how we stop them in SA Read More »
