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The cabinet score cards show persistent underperformance

The president should address this

Afrikaner refugees from South Africa holding American flags arrive, Monday, May 12, 2025, at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The legal position of the 49 Afrikaner ‘refugees’: Sorts facts and misinformation

The FW de Klerk Foundation affirms that no South African citizen is being persecuted on the basis of race

An ANC volunteer carries a poster of Cyril Ramaphosa as she prepares to erect a party station at the Msholozi Informal Settlement near Brakpan, Johannesburg. (File photo by Delwyn Verasamy/MG)

Why South Africa needs electoral reform: A look at mixed-member proportional systems

The country desperately needs a system that makes politicians accountable to voters, not their political parties

File photo of the Ugu District Municipality building. (Photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Outa sounds alarm over new bills that ‘protect’ irregular appointments in local government

The civil society group said the bills were probably being written by legislators with ‘self interest and expediency’ in mind

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Public urged to comment on General Municipal Bill, which could extend timeline for fixing irregular appointments

The Bill, open for comment until 31 August, proposes an extension of the timeframe within which irregular appointments must be rectified

A priest leads a funeral procession for four United Democratic Front activists from Queenstown who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police. Those slain included Matthew Goniwe and Sparrow Mkonto. One mourner carries a small ceremonial spear within his black power salute, symbolic of Umkonto Wa Sizwe, which means “spear of the nation”. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

Let us not allow FW De Klerk’s death to tear us apart

His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former South African President, FW de Klerk. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

FW De Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president, dies

FW De Klerk died in his home having suffered from cancer

Justice delayed: A poster outside the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg calls on people to share their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Photograph by Gallo Images/ Rodger Bosch)

A renewed commitment to TRC cases

The NPA and the Hawks are allocating people and resources to investigate apartheid-era crimes that have gone unpunished, but not everyone is altogether happy about it.

FW de Klerk (below left) at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. (Gallo Images/Rodger Bosch)

Cradock Four back to haunt De Klerk

Pressure is mounting on the NPA to charge the former president and others involved in political killings during apartheid

FW De Klerk at the State of the Nation address on February 13. (David Harrison/M&G)

De Klerk now admits apartheid was a crime against humanity

Apartheid’s last president walks back comments that definition was a Soviet plot

FW de Klerk Foundation responds to the M&G’s apology

The FW de Klerk Foundation responds to the Mail & Guardian’s apology over a story published in the paper, regarding FW de Klerk.

The DA responds to the M&G’s apology

The Democratic Alliance responds to the Mail & Guardian’s apology over a story published in the paper, regarding its leader, Mmusi Maimane.

An entrepreneurship sub-committee on the Human Resources Development Council reports to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

Race is dividing SA – Motlanthe, de Klerk, Rupert

Former presidents FW de Klerk and Kgalema Motlanthe, and business tycoon, Johann Rupert, spoke of race and social inequality at a conference.

Zuma’s Nkandla comparison raises alarms

The FW de Klerk foundation has said Zuma’s comments regarding the distinction between proper state expenditure and self-enrichment are disturbing.

De Klerk foundation funds Breytenbach case

The FW de Klerk Foundation says it covered Glynnis Breytenbach’s defence fees to “promote and defend the Constitution, and rule of law.”

The lockdown, which is in effect from March 26 to April 16 and saw the total closure of all ports and the limiting of non-essential travel inside the country.

No white males for SAA pilot training programme

While SAA lifted a ban on pilot applications from white males in August, no white men were selected for its cadet programme this year.

The Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (Fedsas), has hit out at the ban. (File photo/MG)

Half-hatched law lays hawkers low

Critics take issue with an ‘unworkable’ plan to licence even the smallest of businesses.

Former president FW de Klerk

ANC: De Klerk foundation proof apartheid denialism ‘in ascendency’

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has dismissed claims by FW De Klerk that the party was responsible for the widening inequality gap in the country.

Minister dodges apology to blue-light victim again

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has launched a last-ditch attempt to avoid having to apologise to the Cape Town student abused by police.