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ANN BERNSTEIN | If Joburg cannot be fixed, can we fix South Africa?
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (649+ words) South Africa cannot restore growth, expand opportunity and attract investment while Johannesburg continues its disastrous decline. Preventing the collapse of the city must become a national priority. Cities are central to a country’s growth and development. Johannesburg remains the heart…...
HOGARTH | Ready, steady... go home
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (434+ words) They dressed up and flew in from all corners of South Africa, with high hopes for imminent great good fortune. Who could blame them? All of them had gone through gruelling interviews, answering tough questions from a panel of ministers…...
Mampara of the week: Fadiel Adams
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (112+ words) For someone who had promised to “drop bombs” when he appeared before the Madlanga commission, Fadiel Adams’s performance this week was fit for a repeat Mampara. The man made so many concessions about being wrong on many of his assumptions…...
ANC pledges to deal financial blow to municipal tenderpreneurs
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (630+ words) If the ANC has its way after the November 4 local government elections, most tenderprenuers at municipal level will be hit hard in the pocket. The party plans to directly hire workers to render services such as waste collection, security, cleaning,…...
PERCY MABANDU | History repeats itself as right-wing groups form farcical pact
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (374+ words) South African history has a perverse propensity to repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. This week’s media spectacle of a grinning Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, founder of the March and March movement, standing alongside a beaming Kallie Kriel, AfriForum’s CEO,…...
US plans $725m payment towards its large UN debt
13+ hour, 3+ min ago (733+ words) The Trump administration has informed Congress of its intention to pay $725m (R11.6bn) to the UN, a congressional notification seen by Reuters showed, a move aid experts said was a welcome step towards paying billions in dues owed. The administration has criticised…...
Russian ‘double-tap’ strike on shopping centre in Ukraine kills 16 and wounds 130
15+ hour, 29+ min ago (253+ words) At least 16 people were killed and more than 130 injured on Friday when several Russian drones struck a shopping centre in central Ukraine, authorities said, with President Volodymyr Zelensky promising a response to what he called an “act of barbarism”. Regional…...
‘An insult to the city’: Al Jama-ah leader Hendricks slams Habib over Zille mayoral push
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (419+ words) Al Jama-ah leader Ganief Hendricks has hit back at former Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib for endorsing the DA’s Helen Zille as the party’s mayoral candidate for Johannesburg. Habib claimed Zille is the right person to save Johannesburg from complete collapse....
WATCH | Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma backtracks on ethnic universities proposal after backlash
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (581+ words) March and March Movement leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma has apologised for suggesting South Africa should establish universities aligned with ethnic and linguistic lines, saying her comments were misunderstood. During a recent demonstration in Durban, Ngobese-Zuma suggested linguistic and ethnic groups such…...
Kim Jong Un cool to Trump’s overture despite ‘excellent’ ties
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (900+ words) US President Donald Trump says he wants to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year. However, his overtures have drawn a frosty response from Pyongyang, suggesting it will set tough conditions to hold such a meeting…...