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Last week Julius Malema had attendees at a gala dinner choking on their crème brûlée when he proposed a radical new plan to further the revolution.
Government is watching closely the standoff between Kumba and ArcelorMittal and its effect on steel prices, Lynley Donnelly reports.
Predictions that the African National Congress (ANC) would shift its policies leftwards were confirmed by the outcomes of the commissions at the ANC policy conference on strategy…
Tumi Makgetla speaks to fashion designer Mpho Kuaho from Botswana who has dressed models for the Durban July horse race.
In 2001/02 state employees received below-inflation pay hikes. But, in the past four years, hikes have been above inflation, though the nominal increase fell from 8,5% in 2003 to…
The flush <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reader might not mind spending almost R40 in Angola on his or her favourite weekly newspaper, but he or she would get better value in Malawi,…
Public servants expressed their determination to continue their indefinite strike this week, closing down schools across the country and interrupting hospital and other…
A vulture swooping down on a piece of meat cannot know that the juicy morsel might be its last meal. But, when farmers put poisoned meat around their farms to protect their herds…
Publishing group hopes to digitise about a quarter of a million local titles, writes Tumi Makgetla
About 42 000 nurses’ jobs are going begging in South Africa — and the trade unions blame government’s macro-economic strategy, Gear, for the critical staff shortage. Among the…
Talks in the public service will continue in the shadow of the strike on the basis of a working document adopted by the bargaining council on Wednesday. Earlier this week, a…
Defining the middle strata in one of the most unequal countries in the world is a tricky but unavoidable challenge that Businessmap Foundation researchers Khehla Shubane and…
The unfolding story of Pakistani national Saud Memon, who was released from more than four years of detention, two of which he spent in Guantanamo shortly before his death this…
The National Prosecuting Authority has defended its decision to separate Schabir Shaik’s trial from that of his co-conspirators, the former deputy president Jacob Zuma and French…
Tumi Makgetla speaks to publisher Solomon Solani Ngobeni about scouting for new African voices.
Retailers and agro-processing companies are under investigation by the National Agriculture Marketing Council, which is concerned that these groups may use their "excessive"…
A newly released 300-page report on policing in South Africa has shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of the South African Police Service (SAPS), highlighting, among…
The police response time to crime calls ranges from 30 minutes — in two-thirds of cases according to some studies — to five hours. The findings in the Centre for the Study of…
White cops are a dwindling group in South Africa, but more and more women are donning the blue. South Africa now has 45 000 policewomen, or 30% of the total number of police,…
The transport department is throwing more money at the new traffic management system, announcing recently that it will be forced to extend the completion deadline for the new…
