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Muisician and performance poet Itai Hakim with Ukrainian musician Anastasiya Voytyuk at the Nirox Foundation.

Can the sound of music drown out the sirens of war? 

These South African and Ukrainian musicians definitely think so

Candidate Sisonke Jaca: “The EFF will deliver. I’m 100% certain about that.”

‘Speak out about your problems,’ urges the EFF’s polite and youngest candidate

Sisonke Jaca is passionate about three things, especially the third: football, dancing and politics. He wants to make a difference to people’s lives.

Arnold Mthuthuzeli Specman is starting a new career in politics. The nonagenarian is the oldest candidate in this year’s local government elections.

A 90-year-old revolutionary turned his back on the ANC and is standing for the EFF

Mthuthuzeli has long pushed for change in his area of the Eastern Cape, but it hasn’t happened, so ‘the comforter’ is going a different route.

The Thuli Madonsela of the private sector offers leadership lessons for troubled times

Nonkululeko Gobodo has started a new venture that she believes will help to groom the kind of leaders South Africa desperately needs.

Cell C sees ‘outstanding’ revenue growth

Cellphone operator Cell C expects full-year core profit to rise by over 30% as a turn-around plan pays off, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday. Newly appointed CFO…

SA mines make slow progress in restarting

South African mines made slow progress in bringing back production on Friday after Eskom allowed them to make only limited increases to their electricity consumption. The power…

Mbeki, Zuma fight it out in damaging race

The battle to lead the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has boiled down to President Thabo Mbeki and his former deputy, Jacob Zuma, in a clash that has shaken the party to…

Rugby fever grips SA, England

As a wax model of English rugby star Jonny Wilkinson joined the statue of national hero Horatio Nelson in London’s Trafalgar Square, attention in both England and South Africa…

Manuel says SA should weather market turmoil

South Africa’s solid economic fundamentals should help it weather current turmoil in global financial markets, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday. South Africa’s…

South African hard-line apartheid-era minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and four co-accused received suspended sentences on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to murder a leading black activist cleric in 1989. Vlok and his former police chief were given 10-year prison sentences, suspended for five years. (Gallo)

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Adriaan Vlok spared jail

South African hard-line apartheid-era minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok and four co-accused received suspended sentences on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to…

SA sees spike in power costs

South African electricity tariffs are likely to keep rising steeply as the country tries to fund a massive spending programme to upgrade its power network, Public Enterprises…

Africa’s big four could power continent, says researcher

Africa’s four biggest economic powers could become an engine for regional growth in the same way that emerging market giants Brazil, Russia, India and China are trendsetters in…

Africa’s ‘state-backed’ homophobia

African gay activists this week protested against ”state-sponsored” homophobia, saying authorities condone their persecution across the continent. The International Gay and…

No govt plans to interfere in monetary policy

South Africa’s government has no plans to interfere in monetary policy in order to influence the exchange rate and promote vital exports, an economic adviser to President Thabo…

Biofuels in Africa: Investment boon or food threat?

Africa’s vast arable lands have the potential to rival top agricultural nations like the United States in supplying biofuels to a world seeking cleaner energy sources. But using…

SA maize prices surge

South African maize prices have surged by up to 18% in the past week alone, and traders say the rally may still have some way to go after one of the driest seasons in years. An…

Investors positive but wary on SA land drive

With investors, perception often counts for a lot more than reality. And that appears to be the case in South Africa, which said on Tuesday it had stepped up a campaign to hand…

Credit boom may bode well for SA economy

South Africa’s Reserve Bank has for some time raised the alarm about the inflationary risks posed by a boom in credit. But some analysts say increasing borrowing by businesses…

SA helps families find apartheid dead

Daphney Makhubela had to wait over 20 years to bury her brother Schoeman Ramokgopa, who never said goodbye before leaving South Africa in the 1970s to train as a soldier in the…

SA grapples with black empowerment

It has created a wealthy black elite but has been decried for leaving millions of people behind; advocates say it has helped redress the economic wrongs of apartheid but critics…