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Government and business pin hopes of 3% growth on mining, farming, tourism and infrastructure 

By: Terence Creamer     Updated 6 hours ago The four sectors of mining, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure have been selected under Phase 3 of the Government-Business Partnership as the... 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking at the launch of Phase 3 of the Government-Business Partnership
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking at the launch of Phase 3 of the Government-Business Partnership
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DA wants Parly hearing after scathing SCA ruling on Kusile pollution 

By: Thabi Shomolekae     20th August 2026 The DA has requested an urgent joint oversight hearing in Parliament following a landmark Supreme Court of Appeal judgment regarding ongoing... 

Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation chairperson Supra Mahumapelo

Parly champions coordinated regional strategy for migration governance, expansion of legislative dialogue 

By: Thabi Shomolekae     20th August 2026 Parliament must move beyond reactive measures and lead the charge in building robust governance systems, driving evidence-based policies, and... 

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South Africa’s top court blocked Shell’s Wild Coast oil search: why it matters for climate justice

20th August 2026 South Africa’s Constitutional Court – the country’s highest court – handed down a landmark judgment for climate change and environmental justice in... 

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Chad’s quiet return to French military support

20th August 2026 Chad’s rapprochement clashes with its recent emphasis on national sovereignty and risks reviving insecurity among neighbours and disillusionment at... 

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Diffused accountability is often fertile ground for rent-seeking

19th August 2026 At the constitutional and governance level, the Presidency cannot simply treat Eskom as an autonomous private corporation. The national energy... 

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Governments shouldn’t rely on AI to decide who gets a social grant: inside a South African court case

19th August 2026 South Africa introduced a digital social assistance programme in 2020 to identify who was eligible for its Social Relief of Distress grant. The... 

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Information Integrity and Human Rights

Information Integrity and Human Rights

19th August 2026 The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/ the Commission) has published its Policy Brief on Information Integrity and Human Rights, which... 

Fiscal Policy in Commodity Exporters: A Balancing Act

Fiscal Policy in Commodity Exporters: A Balancing Act

18th August 2026 Two-thirds of emerging market and developing economies—and 90 percent of low-income countries—depend on commodity exports, leaving their public... 

Intelligent Industrial Ecosystems: Turning Proximity into Intelligence

Intelligent Industrial Ecosystems: Turning Proximity into Intelligence

18th August 2026 In the European Union alone, around 80% of industrial data remains unused, limiting competitiveness, resilience and sustainability – a pattern... 

Johannesburg Matters: Joburg in Jeopardy

Johannesburg Matters: Joburg in Jeopardy

18th August 2026 Johannesburg is the one municipality whose failure would make national success impossible, raising the critical question: if Johannesburg cannot be... 

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Minister of Small Business Development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams

ActionSA exposes Minister Ndabeni-Abraham’s undisclosed R41 000 Chinese car sponsorship

Updated 6 hours ago ActionSA has today laid a complaint with Parliament’s Ethics Committee following a parliamentary reply received in July 2026, which revealed that... 

Minister Maropene ducks Parliament as questions about Chinese car donation go unanswered

20th August 2026 Minister Maropene Ramakgopa ducked yesterday’s parliamentary question session, leaving serious questions about vehicle donations and gifts... 

ANC welcomes easing in inflation and revised electricity pricing policy

ANC welcomes easing in inflation and revised electricity pricing policy

20th August 2026 The African National Congress (ANC) welcomes the decline in headline inflation from 5.0% in June to 4.3% in July 2026, while food inflation fell to... 

DA MP and party federal finance chairperson Mark Burke

Burke's committee removal does not absolve him from accountability

20th August 2026 The African National Congress (ANC) notes the decision by the Democratic Alliance (DA) to remove its Federal Finance Chair and Member of... 

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SARS and the three-year rule: when can a tax assessment still be reopened?

20th August 2026 Few things unsettle taxpayers quite like the fear that SARS could, years down the line, reopen a tax assessment they thought was long settled. This... 

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Reinstated Today, Retrenched Tomorrow? The limits of redundancy as a defence to reinstatement

20th August 2026 Reinstatement has long been recognised as the primary remedy for substantively unfair dismissal under the Labour Relations Act. Yet employers... 

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Bad process doesn't make a good dismissal bad: Labour Appeal Court draws a clear line between procedure and substance

19th August 2026 South African labour law has long recognised that a dismissal can fail for one of two reasons. The employer may not have had a fair reason to... 

Eversheds Sutherland

Size matters: When a stationery cupboard joke turns costly

18th August 2026 If you thought the most dangerous thing in a stationery cupboard was a misplaced staple gun, think again. In a recent Labour Court matter, the... 

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