By Loni Prinsloo – MINING groups have been accused of saving themselves millions by dragging out silicosis litigation and payment of compensation to victims....

By Julian Brown – Political identity is a strange thing. In the run-up to an election, we are asked – over and over again...

South Africa Votes 2014 In February 2014, the South African job market lost 118,397 jobs. According to the Adcorp Employment Index, it was the...

By Sarah Evans While blaming Amcu and Lonmin, Jacob Zuma told Afrikaans community leaders that fewer miners would’ve died at Marikana if the police...

By Sapa At an undisclosed location, mine representatives will continue to meet with Amcu – whose members downed tools demanding a basic salary of...

Greg Nicolson – The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) strike in the platinum belt has now been going for three months. The...

By SAPA – EFF leader Julius Malema on Tuesday claimed he could not inspire the poor if he was living in a shack himself....

KATHARINE CHILD –  Adults and children have taken to sharing beds at Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, so severe is the overcrowding. Professor Bonita Meyersfeld,...

By Peter Bruce THE former chief of the SABC, and now the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF’s) candidate for premier of Gauteng, Dali Mpofu, sent...

Sapa Residents of Freedom Park, Soweto, on Wednesday called on the ANC to create jobs and houses.African National Congress treasurer Zweli Mkhize was on...

By Patrick Bond Jim O’Neill – the Goldman Sachs banker who in 2001 coined the idea of a Brazil-Russia-India-China ‘BRIC’ serving as “building bricks...

By Patrick Bond The power, vulnerability and destructiveness of financial markets have spiraled out of control in a South Africa that by 2012 was...