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Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has responded to the Constitutional Court's decision to strike down the Public Procurement Act.
ENOCH GODONGWANA

Procurement Act declared invalid: Godongwana says government will plot new path

Godongwana plots a new path after ConCourt scraps the Procurement Act.

  • Edward West
3 min read
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) leader Steve Biko on September 25, 1977, in King William’s Town. Biko was murdered by the apartheid regime’s security police. From his formative years as a founding intellectual of the BCM alongside his close friend Biko, Barney Pityana has consistently pushed the limits of the status quo, says the writer.
POLITICS

Steve Biko's leadership: Barney Pityana's warning to a drifting nation

Nearly 50 years after Steve Biko’s murder, Barney Pityana’s voice — forged in struggle, scholarship and conscience — remains a stark reminder of the leadership South Africa has…

  • Edwin Naidu
8 min read
Cape Town ratepayers and civic groups say rising property valuations, municipal charges and housing costs are worsening affordability.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Service delivery v rates: Inside Cape Town’s growing affordability crisis

Cape Town’s affordability debate is intensifying as residents face rising rates, tariffs and property valuations.

  • Ntsikelelo Qoyo
6 min read
Professor Thuli Madonsela, director of Stellenbosch University's Centre for Social Justice, said colonialism didn’t only conquer territory, it also restructured law.
SOCIAL JUSTICE

Prof Madonsela: SA's legal system must embrace customary law

Scholars challenge colonial legacy in South Africa's justice system.

  • Wendy Jasson Da Costa
5 min read
The National Union of Mineworkers is consulting lawyers on a legal challenge to the Eskom restructuring process.
ESKOM

Eskom chairman, unions push back on Ramaphosa’s grid reform

NUM's court threat looks like a fight over Eskom's control. But what happens to its balance sheet when valuable assets move out?

  • Simon Majadibodu
5 min read
Environmental activists calling on the government to “Cancel Coal” during protests a few years back.
ENVIRONMENT

“People are the economy”: what Tafelberg, Shell and coal are really about

When South Africa says it wants growth, what exactly are we counting as growth, and whose lives are included in the calculation?

  • Vivian Warby
8 min read
ATM parliamentary leader Vuyo Zungula and party Secretary-General Khukula when they addressed the media on the party's appeal against the Western Cape High Court ruling two weeks ago.
PHALA PHALA

ATM disappointed by Constitutional Court's refusal to hear impeachment appeal

The African Transformation Movement has expressed disappointment as the Constitutional Court refused to hear its appeal against a ruling halting the impeachment process of…

  • Willem Phungula
3 min read