1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (467+ words) Drowning in a slew of criminal charges, alleged Big Five cartel member Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala has also now caught the beady eye of the taxman. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) is targeting his company, Medicare24 Tshwane District, over R14.2m in outstanding…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (545+ words) The ANC has now taken its 2024 municipal candidates list chaos to the Electoral Court, asking it to overturn the Independent Electoral Commission’s decision to refuse to process more than 181 nominations affecting six municipalities because they were not submitted within the…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (778+ words) As President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed Southern African leaders to Durban in August, municipal workers demanding higher pay littered the streets of Pietermaritzburg with rubbish. eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal’s only metropolitan municipality, presented clean streets to its international guests. Northwest of the coastal…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (605+ words) South African households have been buffeted by an onslaught of electricity, water, petrol, transport, health-care and communication costs rising faster than overall inflation, while worrying evidence points to consumers not always benefiting from lower input costs in several food markets....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (888+ words) Sunday Times deputy editor The reopening of the Steve Biko inquest, nearly 50 years after his death, is relevant for the country on several levels. First, it should help refute attempts by apartheid apologists to whitewash the system as benign but…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (422+ words) Editor: Sunday Times and TimesLIVE It is an interesting paradox that, though the Phala Phala scandal hogs the headlines and costs the ANC whatever remains of its credibility, President Cyril Ramaphosa appears to remain the most credible and appealing of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (883+ words) What was once dirty river water flowing through Langrug is now helping grow carrots, onions, beetroot, spinach, sweet potatoes and peppers for people in the community. For Bongiwe Buyambo, who lives in the informal settlement near Stellenbosch, the vegetable garden…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (698+ words) Sasol, which the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) estimates costs 1,000 deaths a year through pollution emanating from its key Secunda plant, stands at a defining moment in its corporate and national role. This is according to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1075+ words) South Africa’s coalition politics is conveniently presented as a binary choice between two outcomes. Voters are incorrectly told, I’d argue, that it is either an ANC-led arrangement with the DA as an ostensibly reluctant party or an ANC-led arrangement with…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (980+ words) South Africa’s persistent literacy and numeracy crisis may have roots in how foundation-phase teachers are selected, trained and prepared for the classroom, according to a new book examining three decades of teacher education research. Initial teacher education is crucial to…...