Headline News
Motsepe-backed GoSolr plans $537m South Africa expansion
By: Bloomberg Updated 1 hour 8 minutes ago GoSolr, a company backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe and the continent’s biggest bank, plans to spend R10 billion to roll out a... →
Zuma's comeback is a headache for ANC
By: Bloomberg Updated 2 hours 1 minute ago Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-ridden years before the ruling party forced him from office, has staged a dramatic... →
SA’s ICJ case follows decades of tension between SA, Israel – Mistra researcher
By: Thabi Shomolekae 30th April 2024 Independent think-tank Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) senior researcher Na'eem Jeenah argued on Tuesday that South Africa’s... →
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Opinions
South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom but need more diversity
Updated 11 minutes ago In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa’s print media. He said the media’s domination by... →
South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland
Updated 13 minutes ago A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in... →
Global carbon tax urgently needed to manage the climate crisis
Updated 21 minutes ago ISS modelling shows that carbon taxing can have major benefits if all nations contribute based on their income status. As the world faces a climate... →
Defending democracy, the Senegalese way
30th April 2024 Senegal’s people stood up to protect their democracy rather than wait for the military or external help. After three tumultuous years, Senegal’s... →
Recommendations
South African Reconciliation Barometer: Looking to the 2024 elections
30th April 2024 South African Reconciliation Barometer: Looking to the 2024 elections This publication is based on a briefing session co-hosted by the Institute... →
Revitalising the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative: a 20-year review
30th April 2024 Since the establishment in 2003 of the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative (GHDI), the world in which humanitarian donors seek to be ‘good’ has... →
With Regard to Borders and Ballots
29th April 2024 The IEC has confirmed that South Africa has 340 parties registered provincially and nationally and thus eligible to participate in the 2024... →
The Making of Manifestos and the Marginalisation of Migrants: A Causal Link?
29th April 2024 Election fever has been ratcheted up several notches over the past few weeks, as one by one various political parties have launched their election... →
Statements
IFP eThekwini Councillors to Boycott State of the City Address
30th April 2024 The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) eThekwini Caucus have unanimously decided to boycott tomorrow’s State of the City Address (SOCA) to be delivered by... →
Paying tribute to boxing legend Dingaan "Rose of Soweto" Thobela
30th April 2024 It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of the legendary Dingaan "Rose of Soweto" Thobela. As the DA, we extend our deepest condolences... →
ActionSA Extends Heartfelt Condolences to Friends and Families of Dr Sam Motsuenyane & Dingaan Thobela
30th April 2024 ActionSA is extremely saddened to learn of the passing of black business leader, Dr Sam Motsuenyane, and boxing legend, Dingaan Thobela, and... →
ActionSA Demands Immediate Withdrawal of ANC Letter Urging Diplomats Campaign Abroad
30th April 2024 ActionSA has received a deeply disturbing letter from the ANC Secretary General’s Office, which appears to have been circulated to South African... →
Press Offices
Disciplinary hearings must be above board
Updated 29 minutes ago There are several unfair methods that might be used at disciplinary hearings, appeal hearings and arbitration hearings. These unsavoury tactics... →
LAC finds that an employee who was dismissed for recreational cannabis use at home was unfairly discriminated against
30th April 2024 In the recent case of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a Division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd (JA86/22) [2024] ZALAC (23 April... →
PRECCA updates emphasise third-party accountability and proactive anti-corruption
30th April 2024 South Africa is continuously suffering from the effects of corruption and drainage of resources, some of which were highlighted in the State... →
LAC finds that an employee who was dimissed for recreational cannabis use at home was unfairly discriminated against
29th April 2024 In the recent case of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a Division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd (JA86/22) [2024] ZALAC (23 April... →
