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Municipal audit outcomes reveal public sector financial management must be professionalised
SPONSORED The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) notes with concern the Auditor General’s report of the audit outcomes for local government, which showed that only 8% of municipalities received clean audits for the 2018/19 financial year, despite R1.26-billion…
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Five must-read books by Ghanaian writers
Search Sweet Country by B Kojo Laing Written by a poet who brings a lyrical free-spiritedness to his prose, Search Sweet Country is set amid the uncertainty of 1970s Accra. It follows a cast of oddball characters on a quest to…
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Security and Compliance Evolution in the Data Revolution
SPONSORED This webinar was hosted by the Mail & Guardian and Microsoft. It featured Kelly Chalom, Cloud Essentials’ in-house legal adviser and compliance specialist; Chris Hathaway, a founding member and Managing Director of the Soarsoft International Group and its subsidiaries Cloud…
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Covid-19 vs Child Nutrition
SPONSORED This webinar was hosted by the Mail & Guardian and Unicef. It featured Dr Mariame Sylla, Chief of Health, HIV/AIDS and Nutrition at Unicef South Africa; Professor Lesley Bamford, Specialist in the Child and Youth Health Directorate in the…
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Behind Ramaphosa’s rejection of the Copyright Bill
COMMENT Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa referred the contentious Copyright Amendment Bill back to Parliament because a number of its provisions are unconstitutional. This was nine years after the Copyright Review Commission recommended amending the Copyright Act to improve the…
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Clubs brace for rushed PSL restart
South African football will return. As these words are hammered onto the keyboard, the PSL board of governors is deliberating the finer points of its resumption. The league is yet to announce when and where it will resume. What we…
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AU must keep momentum to end structural racism
COMMENT “Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the bastion of empire.” These words of one of the founding fathers of the African Union, the late…
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International students need to be treated equally
South Africa has established itself as a regional higher education hub, which had, until the recent Covid-19 pandemic, been hosting increasing numbers of international students. The vast majority hail from neighbouring countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and…
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