Today is the big day as the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) to ever take place outside of the Parliament Precinct will kick off at around 7pm at Cape Town City Hall when President Cyril Ramaphosa takes to the podium to deliver his speech. Final preparations have been put into place with road …
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A research paper just published ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address on Thursday makes for depressing reading. But if there was ever any doubt about the real state of our nation, the numbers don’t lie. The working paper, led by Ricardo Hausmann for the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics …
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is faced with mountainous challenges as he prepares to deliver the first-ever State of the Nation Address outside of the parliamentary precinct. Which brings us to his first: state security. Way back in his 2019 SONA he listed state security as one of the institutions that had been affected by state capture. A …
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Nothing’s easy in South Africa. Certainly not the process to appoint South Africa’s head of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the country. After all, the Constitutional Court has the final word on the development of our law, and on the constitutionality of legislation and other government action. Choosing and being the Chief Justice is therefore extremely important. …
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Consulting firm Bain & Co must surely be sick of the sight of Lord Peter Hain. The anti-apartheid activist and former British cabinet member has consistently called out the US-based firm for its role in State Capture in SA and the close relationship those who used to run the SA arm of the firm had …
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Military conglomerate Denel is virtually on its knees following years of State Capture and maladministration with several commentators calling for President Ramaphosa to finally act against those implicated in the downfall of SA’s failed SOEs after the release of part two of the Zondo Commission report. Speaking to The Citizen, director of African Defence Review, …
Move over Lord of the Rings. The more riveting part two of the Lords of State Capture trilogy has just been released and South Africans have front seats into the antics of the masterminds who plundered state-owned enterprises Transnet and Denel. Some of these same individuals later moved on to Eskom, where the plot thickened to plunge our …
The onus, now more than ever, is on us to be responsible. Judging from the latest government Covid-19 restrictions amid the ongoing global pandemic, it seems Covid is as good as over in South Africa. The government last night announced that owing to a slowdown in infections and an increase in the level of vaccinations, …
The man accused of setting Parliament alight in the early hours of January 2, wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign and cancel his February 10 “State of the Nonsense Address”; demands Chris Hani’s murderer, Janus Walusz be released; and wants a R1,500 grant for all unemployed people. These alleged demands are increasingly underscoring claims of an attack on Ramaphosa’s regime, …
The heat has just been turned up in South Africa’s battle for gas. Publishing a Gas Master Plan base-case report for public comment two days before most of South Africa shut down for the holidays is sure to raise eyebrows. Even more so because the report carrying the name of the Department of Mineral Resources …
