2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (664+ words) The irony is difficult to miss: South Africa keeps telling people to blow the whistle, while the people who actually do it are left fighting for their jobs, their reputations and, in Hasane’s case, their safety. Mphuthi’s dismissal from the…...

5+ day, 14+ 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, 3+ hour ago   (593+ words) On March 26 1999, then deputy president Thabo Mbeki, poised to take over as president in less than 90 days, rose to speak in parliament as the legislators bade farewell to President Rolihlahla Mandela. Starting off in poetic isiXhosa, Mbeki sustained the theme…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1094+ words) The Umbilo Business Association (UBA) has slated government’s “inhumane” attitude to several hundred refugees camped on a Durban street and lack of political will to address the plight of business owners along Che Guevara Road. For 13 weeks, about 400 documented refugees…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (590+ words) South Africa is pressing fellow Southern African Development Community (Sadc) members to sign and ratify a long-stalled protocol on the free movement of people, arguing that the region’s failure to formalise migration channels has left it to absorb the brunt…...