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BOSA envisions merit-based governance, professionalism to rescue collapsing metros
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 56 minutes ago Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has laid out a stringent, merit-based vision for municipal governance, asserting that the... →
Industry, civil society, academia welcome Treasury’s fiscal discipline amid weak growth 
By: Lumkile Nkomfe 22nd October 2026 Business organisation Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) views the 2026 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) as proof that government’s... →
WHO was not told Nigeria's Ebola patient travelled to Congo, as Uganda has said
By: Reuters 22nd October 2026 The World Health Organization was not told that Nigeria's Ebola patient had travelled to Congo, the WHO's representative in Nigeria said on... →
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It’s the economy . . .
23rd October 2026 The elections being held in South Africa and the US in the first week of November are different in many ways. While the words, actions, voting... →
Should adaptation be the new priority?
23rd October 2026 This year, with all the extreme heat being experienced in Europe and the catastrophic events in Nepal, a question about energy transitions and... →
Are bilateral ties the route to renewed West African security cooperation?
22nd October 2026 Pending the outcome of ECOWAS-AES talks, cooperation between neighbouring states offers a starting point for rebuilding regional security ties.... →
Youth employment: the need for a three-pronged approach
22nd October 2026 The limits to job creation in the formal economy are well documented. This is why policies to boost job creation need to ensure that public... →
Recommendations
South Africans Deserve Better: The RISE Mzansi Municipal Plan
22nd October 2026 After years of careful mismanagement and methodically executed corruption, most municipalities have fallen into different levels of dysfunction,... →
MKP: The People’s Mandate 2026 Local Government Election
20th October 2026 The 2026 Local Government Elections give our people an opportunity to restore dignity by restoring our municipalities and rural communities. For... →
Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) Comparison Report 2026
20th October 2026 The Comparison Report is an exercise carried out by the Global Risk and Finance Forum (GRaFF), which brings together Chief Risk Officers (CROs) and... →
Working Paper 388 - Intra-African immigration and Africa's external performance
20th October 2026 International migration has been the focus of several studies in international macroeconomics in recent decades. Interest in this issue is linked... →
Statements
Lesufi’s "mandate" to raise R16 billion for Johannesburg CBD overhaul another electioneering gimmick
22nd October 2026 Residents, workers, and business owners in Johannesburg’s CBD face the daily consequences of urban decay, unsafe streets, and deteriorating... →
Presidency reveals that municipalities can defy Water Action Plan with no consequences
22nd October 2026 An incredibly difficult summer with wildly unpredictable weather has approached, and in more communities, water has become unsafe; yet the... →
Tshwane must confirm whether chlorine crisis extends to other communities
22nd October 2026 Following the shocking revelation that the City of Tshwane failed to chlorinate drinking water at the Bronkhorstspruit treatment plant for several... →
PSA notes targeted Medium-Term Budget relief: Calls for sustainable solutions, accountability, and better spending priorities
22nd October 2026 The Public Servants Association (PSA), representing more than 250 000 public-sector employees, welcomes several measures announced by the Minister... →
Press Offices
AI Quality Management under the EU AI Act: Principles, Obligations and the Links to GDPR and POPIA
Updated 4 minutes ago “The EU AI Act asks a simple question of anyone building high-risk AI systems: can your organisation reliably produce safe, lawful systems, and can... →
Confidence is not capability (Part 2): Governing AI in the age of the rogue agent
Updated 7 minutes ago In Part 1, “Confidence Is Not Capability (Part 1): What the Data Shows, and Why POPIA Is the Foundation of Cyber Resilience”, we reviewed the... →
Confidence is not capability (Part 1): What the data shows, and why POPIA is the foundation of cyber resilience
Updated 15 minutes ago Ransomware is no longer an IT outage. Today’s attacks target backups first, exfiltrate personal information before encrypting it and use the threat... →
“Dishonest” may not mean what you think
22nd October 2026 The word “dishonesty” carries enormous weight in the workplace. It is a label that, once affixed to an employee, can justify the ultimate sanction... →
