ANC & DA battle over an SMS: How legal is it to claim Zuma stole money?

By Greg Nicolson Nkandla: Did Zuma steal? That’s the question posed in the South Gauteng High Court two weeks after Public Protector Thuli Madonsela...

HANNIBAL ELECTOR: The e-tolls are bigger than your election. Much bigger

By Richard Poplak E-tolling was supposed to be the issue that brought the ANC to its knees in Gauteng, thereby ushering in a new...

German cabinet gives nod to minimum wage

By Fin24: Berlin – Germany’s cabinet gave the green light on Wednesday to a national minimum wage of €8.50 per hour in Europe’s biggest...

SA has highest number of new HIV infections worldwide

By  Mia Malan 400 000 new HIV infections occurred in 2012 ranking South Africa first in HIV incidence in the world. According to the survey,...

Marikana Commission: Phase Two, the big picture

By Greg Nicolson The Marikana Commission of Inquiry, which has been running for almost 18 months, has so far focused on the week leading up...

Welcome to Bangui International: Reflections of a psychologist in the CAR

GAIL WOMERSLEY is a South African psychologist who just returned from six months in the Central African Republic, where she worked primarily with Doctors...

Op-Ed: Building unity to restore democratic rule

By Raymond Suttner Nkandla has left the country in crisis. Now, we need to draw in a range of actors who have an interest...

Unisa: An election debate to forget

By Greg Nicolson As elections near, political parties are rolling out leaders on an endless cycle of public debates (not President Zuma, of course)....

HANNIBAL ELECTOR: How Bekkersdal became a symbol of everything that’s wrong with South Africa

By Richard Poplak The contested location of Bekkersdal has become something of a shorthand for South Africa’s democratic-era failures. But what makes Bekkersdal special?...

Protests not always about municipalities’ ‘service delivery’

By Carol Paton PROTESTS sweeping South Africa are not always about “service delivery” failures but are driven by a range of political and government...

India’s antipoverty battle not over

By Subir Gokarn and Anu Madgavkar AS INDIA prepares for its general election next month, it has some cause to celebrate: extreme poverty is...

Privileged South Africans join hands to help the poor

By Hugh Corder and Anton Fagan THIS marks the public launch of the Five Plus Project. Its goal is to get as many comparatively...