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Land reform minister announces an intensified programme to allocate arable land to emerging farmers

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

Suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule.

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…

Eskom said all protocol was observed when the unit was shut down.  (David Harrison/M&G)

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

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato said the city has responded to more than 100 land occupation incidents, in 30 different parts of the metro. Plato said more than 50 000 illegal structures had been removed.

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

Many hats: Ibrahim Rasool, the new chairperson of the Western Province Rugby Football Union and once the Western Cape premier, reflects on current politics in the province. (David Harrison/M&G)

ANC’s ‘moral crisis’ will foil W Cape hope

Former premier Ebrahim Rasool says voters will abandon the party until corruption is arrested

Camps Bay home where housing activists are staging a protest. (David Harrison/M&G)

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

Serious allegations: Judge John Hlophe (left) is being investigated by the Judicial Conduct Tribunal, as ordered by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng (right). (Shelley Christians/Gallo Images/The Times)

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

Troubled waters: The SFF’s former acting chief executive, Sibusiso Gamede, received mysterious payments into his personal accounts

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

On parole: Former Azanian People’s Liberation Army member Kenny Motsamai (left), stands next to prophet Paseka ‘Mboro’ Motsoeneng after his release from prison in 2016. (Jabu Kumalo/Gallo Images/Daily Sun)

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

Carefully now: President Cyril Ramaphosa has his temperature taken. (ER Lombard/Gallo Images)

SA’s level best: Welcome to the new normal

It’s a lifestyle that South Africans will have to maintain as the country navigates an almost post-lockdown situation in which the coronavirus remains very alive and active

Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has made strides in embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its core operations, positioning itself as a leader in sustainable airport management on the African continent.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Level one loading: Almost back to normal

President Cyril Ramaphosa announces South Africa will move to level one of lockdown on September 20 after nearly six months of restrictions on movement, trade, learning and…

Former DA leader Mmusi Maimane.  (David Harrison/M&G)

Mmusi Maimane doesn’t want DA’s political ‘superstars’

The leader of the new One South Africa Movement says his former party has set itself on a course away from multiracialism after its recent policy conference

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – FEBRUARY 13: Members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) on February 13, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. The State Of The Nation of the President of South Africa is an annual event in which the President reports on the status on the nation, highlights achievements, flags challenges and outlines strategies that will be undertaken to unlock developments interventions for the coming financial year. (Photo by Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

EFF MPs to be investigated for disrupting parliamentary proceedings

Under the spotlight will be the Economic Freedom Fighters’ behaviour at the State of the Nation address and during the public enterprise department’s budget speech

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

No mass DA exodus, for now

Despite growing disgruntlement and a string of high-profile resignations, often by black members, DA rank and file don’t appear to be jumping ship

Who will watch over us now?: George Bizos and Sydney Kentridge, leader of the defence team in the Braam Fischer trial in 1966.

Legal giant, legend, friend, family man: A tribute to George Bizos

He didn’t own a cellphone and spent 30 minutes a day in his vegetable garden. For 60 years he fought any system that sought to oppress and also changed countless lives

Right-wing Poland and the glorification of Hani’s killer

Polish anti-racism groups grow more concerned as the image of Chris Hani’s killer becomes normalised, with Janusz Walus’s likeness and name displayed on products for sale on a…

The Democratic Alliance.

DA moves to a ‘colour-blind’ future

The official opposition said current ANC policies to undo historic economic injustices have only benefited an elite few

Democratic Alliance leader, John Steenhuisen. (David Harrison/M&G)

DA policy conference to signal which way party is headed

Party’s policy conference could provide clarity on its future direction and clues about the likely contenders for leadership positions

Moodey blues? John Moodey after winning the DA Gauteng leadership in 2016. On Wednesday he resigned from the party after being a member for 22 years. (Paul Botes/M&G)

DA claims Moodey jumped ship before he was pushed

The DA says former Gauteng leader John Moodey resigned from the party amid allegations that he was conspiring against fellow party members ahead of crucial party meetings