While you were asleep

The campaign race for the 2021 Municipal Elections is on. But for some reason, to the silent dismay of his ANC colleagues, President Cyril Ramaphosa is still not out of the starting blocks.  Flanked by the South African and ANC flags and wearing an ANC tie in a televised address, he welcomed the Independent Electoral Commission’s decision to go ahead with this year’s municipal elections and …

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It’s déjà vu. Taking a leaf out of former close associate and businessman Schabir Shaik’s book, jailed former president Jacob Zuma has managed to be granted medical parole to serve his 15-month sentence for contempt of court “in the system of community corrections”. The news, making global headlines and causing a stir on social media, comes just two months after his incarceration and shortly after he was taken to hospital for “medical observation”.   His “illness” has also been used as excuse for …

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The decision not to get vaccinated is tearing families apart, so much so that people are now getting divorced after years of marriage because one partner refuses to be vaccinated.   And although our Constitution affords everyone the choice to be vaccinated or not, all rights have limitations, it seems. News24 probed Health Minister Joe Phaahla on how the government’s plan to enforce …

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The latest twist in the Digital Vibes saga could see former health minister Zweli Mkhize face criminal charges for his role in the awarding of a contract to the firm. The possibility of criminal charges was brought up in a presentation to parliaments standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). …

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Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has buckled under a wave of pressure from all fronts on her surprise publication of the green paper on comprehensive social security and retirement reform by withdrawing it last night, without any explanation. The paper, gazetted two weeks ago without putting it through Cabinet or the National Treasury, proposed that it be mandatory for …

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South Africa, already badly beaten by the Covid-19 pandemic with cases of both the highly transmissible Delta and Beta variants, has a new Covid strain. Local scientists have identified a new variant that has a concerning number of mutations, but the so-called C.1.2. strain has not yet been labelled as a variant of concern. The variant, which …

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Babita Deokaran’s cold-blooded assassination is not in vain. We cannot allow it to be. A witness in an investigation into alleged fraud relating to a R332m tender for personal protective equipment, the CFO of the Department of Health paid with her life to expose corruption and help cure us from the cancer that’s eating our country from …

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From state capture to life and death, nothing is sacred to the scammers, even as the Covid-19 pandemic is costing us so much in lives and livelihoods. For the rest of us, amid this wave of corruption, it’s a matter of social survival – if we don’t laugh about all the scams, corruption and fake news plaguing our country, it will consume us. …

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Arguably one of the hardest-hit industries since the start of the coronavirus pandemic is the aviation industry (though the restaurant, liquor and events industry may argue otherwise). But airlines are ready to take to the sky once more when the ailing state-owned enterprise, South African Airways, announced yesterday they were ready to recommence operations from …

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Bloomberg reports that South Africa has the worst unemployment rate in the world following the release of new figures and places them on top of a list of 82 countries. The list is monitored by Bloomberg and after the announcement from StatsSA that the jobless rate rose to 34.4% in the second quarter up from …

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