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Editorial: Where is the accountability?

We need consequences, otherwise we will continue to get more of the same

Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to co-opt the media during the last years of the Zuma era. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo)

Time running out for Parliament to deal with abuses at spy agency

A 100-page report details ‘serious breaches of the Constitution, policy, law, regulations and directives’ by the former president

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Editorial: Don’t bed down with the powerful

‘The lesson for every journalist is consistently to introspect on how we deal with sources and manage our own political leanings’

The mountain gorilla’s habitat is restricted to protected areas covering nearly 800 square kilometres in two locations — the Virunga Massif and Bwindi-Sarambwe — which stretch across the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. (AFP)

Advocacy: AmaB approaches Nugent on Sars using tax law against journalists

In 2016, Sars, Tom Moyane and Jonas Makwakwa brought defamation proceedings against two amaBhungane reporters and the Mail & Guardian

“You know why [they are critical]

Malema: Some black journalists are ‘house n#!@*rs’

The EFF leader told the crowd not to be apologetic when fighting for Africans, because they were the most oppressed

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the Musina Makhado Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is touted by the government to be the new “regional economic epicentre” much like other mega-projects in the Global South.

SA fails to stub out dodgy ciggies

The wars at Sars have provided fertile ground for the illicit tobacco trade to grow

Head of the State Security Agency Arthur Fraser.

Inspector-General of Intelligence claims SSA head Arthur Fraser is intimidating him

Fraser was implicated in author Jacques Pauw’s book, The President’s Keepers, and accused of running a parallel intelligence network.

Jacques Pauw confirmed that three officers from the Hawks arrived at his home in Riebeek Kasteel.
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Hawks leave with ‘insignificant’ papers after raid on Pauw’s property

Hawks officers have raided the Western Cape home of author Jacques Pauw, relating to explosive revelations in his book, The President’s Keepers.

The matter continues on Thursday at the Johannesburg High Court.

EDITORIAL: Hofmeyr? Seriously?

Hofmeyr isn’t capable of singing a new song; he just recycles his old hits, which are just some old folk songs from a rather nasty tradition.

Krog, Pauw speak out on newspaper’s decision to publish Hofmeyr’s views

The weekly Afrikaans paper was challenged on social media after it published an opinion piece by right-wing popstar Steve Hofmeyr.

Rain could bring on more sinkholes in Gauteng

It’s time to get real about free higher education

As a country with a developing economy, why are we so obsessed with university?

Agriculture is among the sectors that will be boosted this financial year.

Motale defends Sunday Independent’s probe into Jacques Pauw’s sources

Pauw wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday that people should expect to be "highly entertained" by Motale on Sunday.

Paper trail: President Muhammadu Buhari

Brown’s trickery doesn’t fool us

‘It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic, which is why it is simply tragicomic,’ says the writer

‘Poor children slip down the early childhood development childcare ladder — they don’t climb up that ladder

See a child as a citizen with rights

Corruption, poverty and the pursuit of profit are all detrimental to early childhood development

Ukrainians mark the first anniversary of the Orange Revolution in 2005.

Why South Africans should be worried by ANC talk of a ‘colour revolution’

South Africa’s governing party is invoking concepts and emulating strategies first developed by authoritarian regimes in Eurasia

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela makes a presentation to members of the NCOP Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of State Information Bill in Parliament.

Some are more valid than others

White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they’re telling us things we already know

The President’s Keepers and state capture: black intellectualism needs to focus

South Africa has an undernourished literary tradition, where even among the sophisticated one may find confusion over written work and writers.

Jacques Pauw has received a cease and desist letter from the State Security Agency

DA guns for SSA boss Arthur Fraser

​The DA has threatened to take legal action if the police or the NPA refuse to prosecute State Security Agency director-general, Arthur Fraser.

Whatever happens from here on out

Are South Africa’s anti-corruption crusaders racist?

‘It would be foolhardy to suggest that discussions about corruption in South Africa are race neutral’

The most obvious option left for the ANC should Zuma decide not follow the party’s directive for his recall would be to vote him out of office in a motion of no confidence.

Many gifts, but no Guptas or payments declared by Zuma

An alleged R1-million monthly salary from an ANC-supporter was not a part of President Zuma’s declared goods said DA leader Mmusi Maimane