BY NTSAKISI MASWANGANYI – THE number of claimants for unemployment insurance benefits fell in the first half of this year compared with a year earlier...

By ANN BERNSTEIN –  After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Western democratic capitalism seemed to have triumphed. But the 2008 economic crisis, and...

BY MARIANNE THAMM – A little over two weeks after the handing over of the final 580-page report of the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry...

The International Criminal Court on Thursday confirmed that Ivory coast’s former president, Laurent Gbagbo will face trial for crimes against humanity, throwing out an...

By Reuters – Economic growth in Liberia and Sierra Leone could decline by almost 3.5 percentage points as the world’s worst outbreak of Ebola...

By Adam Wakefield –  The mining industry could play a role in the high levels of disability in the Free State, Northern Cape, North...

By SAPA – Platinum workers are dissatisfied with the wage agreement that ended the five-month strike within the sector, the National Union of Mineworkers...

By Sapa-AFP – Efforts to end Sudan’s wars and other crises have made a major advance, the African Union’s chief mediator Thabo Mbeki said...

By: RAYMOND SUTTNE – Beneath the headline-grabbing clamour about Nkandla, “spy tapes”, the role of the Public Protector and many other issues that jostle...

By Ntsakisi Maswanganyi – SA SHOULD embrace technology and mechanisation instead of dreading it, given mechanisation’s long-term benefits of job creation and higher productivity,...

TRANSPORT Minister Dipuo Peters’ angry rejection of the Gauteng government’s e-toll review panel during a radio interview, in which she was at pains to...

By Leon Louw – SA’s small-business policy is like a mother feeding a baby with one hand and throttling it with the other. Small...