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Public transport in Cape Town and its surrounds has stabilised somewhat following two weeks of disruption due to ongoing conflict over routes between two rival taxi associations.

Fikile has a daring plan for taxis

The transport minister presented to the ANC’s top body a proposal to establish a bank for taxi operators and to subsidise the industry

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ANC still at odds over how to tackle leaders facing serious graft allegations

The ANC’s top six has been mandated to work closely with its integrity committee to tackle claims of corruption against senior party members

Comrades in arms: (from left) Stanley Mathabatha, Florence Radzilani, Soviet Lekganyane, Bishop Israel Makamu and Daniel Msiza during the ANC’s Limpopo provincial conference in June 2018 in Polokwane. The party has reinstated Radzilani and Msiza, who are among the people implicated in the looting of VBS Mutual Bank. (Photo: Antonio Muchave/Gallo Images/Sowetan)

VBS looting haunts the ANC in Limpopo

The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections

Burundi’s presidents on a mural.

Assassination pushes Burundi to the brink

Close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza, widely believed to be behind a spate of arbitrary arrests and killings of opposition members, gunned down.

Supporters of President Ismaïl Guelleh in 2010 in Djiobuti following Parliament’s approval of the constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a third term.

Djibouti opposition leader vindicated

Weeks before President Ismaïl Guelleh stands for an unconstitutional fourth term, he has lost a “politically motivated” case against his former ally.

Ordinary people making the extraordinary happen

Ahead of the Finance for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Olympian Haile Gebrselassie reflects on what it takes to eliminate poverty.

South Africa needs to bolster its biosecurity to control the spread of disease in livestock and poultry.

Student union takes Mugabe to court

Zimbabwe students union takes President Robert Mugabe to court over the awarding of a controversial doctorate of philosophy degree to Grace Mugabe.

Ten things about porn in the USA

We bring you 10 things you may or may not have known about the porn industry in the US.

Malema to gift houses in EFF Mpumalanga opening

Ten things about berets

With his usual flair for style, Julius Malema has dressed the active members of his new political party, Economic Freedom Fighters, in red berets.

A wide-range of topics were touched on at the session titled ‘Fact & fiction: The story is our escort, without it we are blind’.

Literary Festival 2013: The authors

The M&G Literary Festival features a lineup of well-known names from the worlds of media and publishing.

The ten things about The Man Booker Prize longlist

The Man Booker prize is awarded for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe.

Osama bin Laden poster.

Ten things about the Bin Laden report

The "Bin Laden report" is the result of an investigation by a commission appointed by the Pakistan government into the slaying of Osama bin Laden.

Israel’s surveillance tools are now part of its economic presence in Africa. Photo: File

Ten things about surveillance

The word comes from the French, meaning to look or watch over (veiller; to watch or keep watch, as in a sentry; sur: over or above)

Numsa responds

The M&G has obtained a copy of the submission by the National Union of Metalworkers to facilitators conducting an inquiry into the problems in Cosatu.

SPIKE: Ten things about June 16 1976

The day on which black South African school pupils rose up against "Bantu education" is now celebrated as Youth Day.

Ten things about circumcision

The practice, which entails the removal of part or all of the foreskin of the penis, is widespread among Southern Africans as an initiation rite.

Members of the public have complained about bodyguards carrying high-calibre weapons in restaurants, churches, shopping centres and townhouse complexes.

Ten things about guns in South Africa

GunPolicy.org estimates that there are six million guns in South Africa, roughly 12 for every 100 people.

Resource nationalism is having a direct effect on commodity prices

Increasing uncertainty drives away investors

Resource nationalism is having a direct effect on commodity prices, making them more volatile and threatening global security.

Ten things about New Year

The earliest records of New Year festivities go back to the Babylonians about 4000 years ago.

Father Christmas at Maponya Mall.

10 things about…Christmas

December 25 was also traditionally the birthday of the Persian god Mithra, known as the Sun of Righteousness and Lord of Light.