The ANC appears to have lost an opening round in its fight to clean up its image. Hundreds of its members defied the party’s ban on associating with corruption-accused leaders and turned out at KwaZulu-Natal MPL Zandile Gumede’s court appearance…
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The government has given SAA R9.3-billion towards paying the R16.4-billion it owes creditors. The debt includes interest on historical debt and additional funds that banks lent to SAA to ensure its operations continued while it is under business rescue. The…
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George Bizos: Lawyer. Friend. Fighter. Human rights activist for a lifetime. He was a junior member of the defence team in the 1963 Rivonia Trial, where Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada, Lionel Bernstein, James Kantor,…
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In 2015, George Bizos — veteran human rights lawyer who fought injustice in South Africa despite not being born here — spoke about ethics and the role of active citizenship at a Mail & Guardian and University of South Africa…
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Black South African women know what it is to live under the constant threat of being in danger of violence and rape at any particular moment in our lives. Nowhere are we safe: not in our homes, places of worship,…
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COMMENT It is likely that companies will see increasing “public” protests against them, similar to the “service delivery” protests against government corruption, mismanagement and poor public services, unless they exercise greater democratic corporate citizenship. Rising private sector corruption, price-fixing and…
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Caster Semenya appears to have arrived at a disappointing end of an exhausting legal war. A Swiss federal tribunal on Tuesday shot down her appeal against the court of arbitration for sport (CAS) ruling that upheld new policies governing athletes…
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In 2013, Polish sociology professor Rafał Pankowski sat in front of his computer and watched a Europa League football game between Italian club Lazio and Warsaw-based Legia Warszawa. During the game, fans of the current Polish champions unfurled a banner…
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