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Towards the end of January this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he had signed into law the Political Party Funding Bill.
What’s the difference between sex work and prostitution? More than semantics, argues Chuck Stephens as he picks up on a debate that must be almost as old as the profession itself.
After giving a blistering testimony before the Mokgoro Commission of Inquiry, Willie Hofmeyr had to address his own actions at the time of the Spy Tapes debacle.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plan to unbundle Eskom into three units could bring the utility more in step with global trends.
State-owned power utility Eskom is in crisis. It’s the single largest threat to South Africa’s economy, according to a former minister of finance.
The more auditors and accountants are in the headlines for their dirty work, the more money they seem to make.
Much has been made about China’s role and profile in Africa and the factors underlying its activities on the continent. Less debated is the spread and depth of Russia’s contemporary presence and profile in Africa.
Former Transkei homelands leader, MP and cabinet boycotter, “General” Bantu Holomisa, is worried that incorrectly handled, the alleged Bosasa funding of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s party election campaign, could leave the country rudderless.
Paul Hoffman says there is little doubt that “rampant corruption is destructive to the point it has the potential to make South Africa fail as a state.”
Theuns Eloff, Executive Director of the FW de Klerk Foundation, argues that UP’s introduction of an “English-only” tuition policy drove Afrikaans-speaking students away to the point where they consisted of just 18% of students.