“These statistics are not very rosy,” Police Minister Bheki Cele warned before he began presenting the 2019 annual crime statistics. On Thursday, Cele and the South African Police Service (SAPS) announced to members of Parliament’s police committee that contact crime…
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Despite priding itself on being the sole country to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings as a functioning democracy, Tunisia faces challenges on its new political path. The cradle of the autocrat-ousting movements that swept the region nine years ago,…
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has made his first appointments to South Africa’s highest court. Justices Zukisa Tshiqi and Steven Majiedt — both currently at the Supreme Court of Appeal — will begin at the Constitutional Court on October 1. Ramaphosa’s choices…
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Former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng on Wednesday confirmed that he warned journalists that management would be “cleaning up the organisation” of people “doing their own stuff”. During the second day of his testimony before the Zondo commission of…
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In 1995, my family went to the Boxing Day Test at Saint George’s Park in Port Elizabeth. South Africa were playing England in the fourth Test of the Poms’ first tour since our readmission to international cricket. I’ve forgotten which…
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Nations rich and poor must invest now to protect against the effects of climate change or pay an even heavier price later, a global commission warned Tuesday. Spending $1.8-trillion across five key areas over the next decade would not only…
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Nations rich and poor must invest now to protect against the effects of climate change or pay an even heavier price later, a global commission warned Tuesday. Spending $1.8-trillion across five key areas over the next decade would not only…
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The public broadcaster believes President Cyril Ramaphosa was sabotaged during a recorded address to the nation last week. On Thursday, the president recorded a statement that was aired on all local 24-hour television channels. But the address that aired on…
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Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng will appear before the judicial inquiry into state capture — chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo — on Tuesday. Motsoeneng is expected to respond to allegations accusing him of allowing the public broadcaster’s newsroom to…
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