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Michael Appel 
Accountability Now’s Adv Paul Hoffman minces no words in his appraisal of the work lying ahead for the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council.
Fingers are being pointed at politicians and senior government officials for stoking the fires of anti-immigrant sentiment as a cheap and easy means to deflect from decades of failure. The latest report from the ISS delves deeper.
Corruption Watch’s latest Analysis of Crime Trends report shows that fraud accounts for at least 35% of corruption allegations across the board in South Africa.
Democracy on paper versus in practice are two different things, and South Africans are worryingly giving up on it writes the FW de Klerk Foundation’s Christina Teichmann.
Joburg councillor Colleen Makhubele says no one bribed her to vote against her coalition partners in the city’s multi-party government. She says she’s done it before and would do it again.
It’s been a tentative few weeks in Joburg with the future of the multi-party coalition government under scrutiny but Mayor Mpho Phalatse says her job is safe.
National coalition politics will be ushered in come 2024 with DA leader John Steenhuisen opining that it will either be led his party or the ANC. You choose.
Lord Peter Hain has written to US President Joe Biden asking him to ban Bain & Co from government contracts.
The Auditor General has released a report naming and shaming 15 departments who consistently incurred fruitless and wasteful expenditure over five years amounting to R1.5bn. Michael Appel takes a look.
While ANC leadership clings to the notion of winning an outright majority in 2024, even their own voters believe coalitions are the future. Michael Appel unpacks the Social Research Foundation’s latest report.