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Nedlac urges employers to allow workers to vote on May 29
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 34 minutes ago The leadership of organised business, labour, community and government at the National Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) has urged all... →
Labour Party’s court application to postpone election will be heard on May 8
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 47 minutes ago The Labour Party of South Africa (Labour Party) has welcomed the directive from the Constitutional Court that its urgent application, focussing on... →
Glencore’s Rustenburg ferrochrome smelter remains idled
By: Martin Creamer Updated 1 hour 35 minutes ago Pending an improved price and cost environment, Glencore said in its first-quarter 2024 production report on Tuesday that its Rustenburg... →
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Opinions
Voting trends and party support over 20 years
Updated 28 minutes ago Polls predict that the ANC will finish below 50% in the May 2024 general election. Elections are a contest for power in general and control over... →
How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa
29th April 2024 Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous... →
Owning a gun in South Africa offers some safety, but risks run high for users and society – expert
29th April 2024 South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, eclipsed only by Honduras and a handful of Caribbean island states. Furthermore,... →
South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs
26th April 2024 South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research. Some of the country’s researchers have made major... →
Recommendations
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... →
Triple billion targets policy solutions matrix
26th April 2024 The Triple Billion Targets Policy Solutions Matrix has been developed to help bridge the step from data to delivery by collating some of the latest... →
Global economic fracturing and shifting investment patterns
26th April 2024 The report spotlights 10 major shifts in global foreign direct investment (FDI). It reveals how the combination of structural transformations in... →
Statements
Paying tribute to boxing legend Dingaan "Rose of Soweto" Thobela
Updated 2 minutes ago 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
Updated 5 minutes ago 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
Updated 59 minutes ago ActionSA has received a deeply disturbing letter from the ANC Secretary General’s Office, which appears to have been circulated to South African... →
Pravin Gordhan should account for Eskom's diesel expenditure before he departs
Updated 1 hour 43 minutes ago The inefficiency of blowing nearly R45 Billion on diesel over the past two years (up to end-March 2024) to mitigate the impact of regular... →
Press Offices
PRECCA updates emphasise third-party accountability and proactive anti-corruption
Updated 1 hour 33 minutes ago 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... →
Herbert Smith Freehills promotes Ernst Müller to director in Johannesburg
29th April 2024 Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is promoting Ernst Müller to director. His appointment takes effect on 1 May 2024. Ernst is... →
How the two-pot system will affect the hospitality industry
29th April 2024 Allowing financially stretched fund members to withdraw a limited amount of money from their pension savings from what’s known as a savings pot,... →
