2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (468+ words) – September 10, 2026 Report author Terence Corrigan said that the quality of municipal government has a decisive influence on a country’s ability to attract investment, support businesses, and generate employment. In South Africa, municipal dysfunction means that this influence is largely negative....

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (335+ words) – September 10, 2026 There has been no starker case study of this than the multi-year lobby and court action the two groups have run against the introduction of what is, in practice, a variation of the charter school model for South Africa,…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (129+ words) – September 10, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters whether the country is on…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (189+ words) – September 9, 2026 Here follows some of the data. South Africa has a population of around 63 million people. Of those, only around 16.7 million people, or 27%, are employed. There are only around 750 000 people earning more than R750 000 a year, equivalent to roughly 1.2% of South…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (460+ words) – September 9, 2026 Two things happened in South Africa this past week. The African National Congress (ANC) forgot to register some of its candidates with the Electoral Commission (IEC) for the November elections and South Africa’s economic growth rate came in at…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (101+ words) – September 8, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters whether their standard of living…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (490+ words) – September 7, 2026 Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has warned that organised crime and syndicate activity pose a growing threat to the integrity of South Africa’s law-enforcement institutions. Speaking at the University of Johannesburg’s Combating Corruption Summit last week, Kubayi punctuated an otherwise…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (957+ words) – September 7, 2026 Ramaphosa has consistently argued that ANC unity and preservation of the ANC family (ANC, SACP, COSATU, and their splinters in the MKP and the EFF) was essential to the party’s political survival and ability to govern. That “the unity…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (71+ words) The Common Sense In this clip from Talking Sense James Myburgh discusses the latest crime statistics which show the number of murders in South Africa declining. South Africa has a completely dysfunctional police service and yet murders keep falling. James…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (843+ words) – September 5, 2026 The time may finally have come to state what has long been obvious: South Africa’s flawed foreign policy has been years in the making. It is the result of ideological rigidity, weak and indecisive leadership, an old grudge against…...