14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (648+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe multimillion-rand tenders awarded by the North West government to controversial businessman Suliman Carrim, in a process that could see his assets forfeited to the state. The SIU’s probe…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (691+ words) School principals are getting into personal debt to keep schools functioning while provincial education departments delay releasing funds for basic operating costs. At the South African Principals’ Association (Sapa) national conference in Limpopo, attended by more than 850 principals, school leaders…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (455+ words) A 2023 question-and-answer session in the Gauteng legislature has revealed that a company owned by Mpho Edward Malema, who was recently arrested in connection with a “dodgy” R16m Emfuleni fleet tender, had been paid R34.7m. In response to DA questions, the municipality confirmed…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (257+ words) Yet, for decades, the historical record of the slave trade and colonial underdevelopment has remained trapped in macro-narratives — broad aggregate figures of millions displaced, generalised accounts of mercantilist extraction, and colonial archives written by the victors. 1. Reconstructing the slave trade:…...

22+ hour, 24+ min ago   (329+ words) By Terje Solsvik and Anna Ringstrom Sweden’s centre-left parties, which back Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson for prime minister, held an early lead at 51.3% in a parliamentary election on Sunday, an exit poll by broadcaster SVT showed. Early results from…...

23+ hour, 47+ min ago   (332+ words) AI Parliamentarians come together in Cape Town this week for the 69th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC). The conference, hosted by South Africa’s parliament and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), will convene hundreds of legislators and parliamentary officials from across the world…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (914+ words) A confidential ANC report has laid bare the internal party weaknesses that led to chaos in the registration of candidates for the municipal elections and the omission of 51 mayoral candidates from the lists submitted to the Electoral Commission of South…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (761+ words) The latest instalment in the turmoil engulfing the South African Police Service (SAPS) raises an ethical question beyond the personalities occupying senior positions: when a state lawyer advises a public official, to whom does that lawyer owe allegiance? It was…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (534+ words) US president George W Bush, hardly a year in office, was in Florida on September 11 2001 listening attentively as elementary school pupils read from The Pet Goat, when Andrew Card, his chief of staff, quietly walked into the classroom and whispered…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (821+ words) What do a DJ, a footballer, an actor, a podcaster, a controversial TV show presenter and a poet have in common? They are among a number of celebrities who have thrown their hats into the ring for the local government…...