State to lease more land to emerging farmers
Land reform minister announces an intensified programme to allocate arable land to emerging farmers
The case for decriminalising personal drug use
Deputy Social Development Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu tells the UN that the war on drugs has failed and is suggesting other options to tackle addiction
Public protector clears Magashule, Joemat-Pettersson
Current ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has been cleared of allegations that he misled the Free State provincial legislature when he was premier of that province. It follows a complaint by the Democratic Alliance’s Roy Jankielsohn, who asked the public protector to investigate whether Magashule lied about payments made for the funeral of health MEC Fundiswa […]
Cape quakes no concern for Koeberg
Last week’s tremor has anti-nuclear campaigners questioning the safety of Koeberg, although the nuclear facility said the plant is designed to sustain a magnitude-seven earthquake
Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’
The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase
ANC’s ‘moral crisis’ will foil W Cape hope
Former premier Ebrahim Rasool says voters will abandon the party until corruption is arrested
The young and the rentless: Inside Camps Bay’s ‘hijacked’ mansion
An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town
Hlophe says ‘assassination plot’ is a bid to sully his name
Allegations that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe planned to assassinate his deputy, Patricia Goliath, are leading to further instability on the Cape bench
Controversial oil reserves sale ‘corrupt’ and ‘dishonest’ court hears
The sale of South Africa’s crude oil reserves is now facing a criminal investigation by the Hawks
Clicks-bait: EFF MP’s new parole probe
Kenny Motsamai, a parolee who is also an EFF MP, could be sent back to jail if correctional services finds he violated his parole conditions
