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Landscape: Stretching across a vast arid landscape of red dunes, fossil riverbeds and open savannahs, the park protects one of southern Africa’s most intact desert ecosystems. Photos: African Parks

Conservation drive crosses borders

An EU-funded initiative has been launched in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, shared by South Africa and Botswana and one of southern Africa’s most important ecosystems

President Cyril Ramaphosa and deputy president Paul Mashatile. Photo: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mashatile: We’re not shielding Ramaphosa on Phala Phala

The majority had made a decision and that was how democracy worked, the deputy president told the National Assembly

The Democratic Alliance  has called for a “mass protest” in Cape Town on Wednesday against what it has dubbed the “race quotas” bill.
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State of the Nation address debate opens 2024 election season early

DA leader says voters face a clear choice in next year’s national polls after president lost the opportunity to pull back from the brink

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives to testify before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 12, 2021. – Ramaphosa conceded on August 11, 2021 there had been rampant state corruption while he was deputy to ex-president Jacob Zuma, but said he did not resign as that would have stymied his efforts to fight the rot. Ramaphosa appeared before a judicial panel probing the alleged mass looting of state coffers during Zuma’s 2009-2018 presidency. (Photo by Sumaya HISHAM / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SUMAYA HISHAM/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Zondo says he will not hesitate to make findings against Ramaphosa if need be

The chairperson of the state capture commission and acting chief justice said he had no bias in favour of the president or any against his predecessor, but proceeded on the basis…

Mandisa Maya. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Alon Skuy)

Maya moots special courts to handle cases flowing from Zondo state capture report

The aspirant chief justice said it might give the country a fighting chance against corruption but Justice Minister Roland Lamola said there would be no point unless the state’s…

President Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in October 2021. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC top brass reluctant to work with the EFF

The ANC has reportedly received assurances from smaller parties about continuing existing coalitions, but its top leaders are hesitant to work with Julius Malema

Social justice: Housing activist Mervin Govender, the independent
candidate for the Forum for Service Delivery, is contesting ward 49 in
Phoenix, in north Durban. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

Phoenix activist takes on Durban’s politically connected in November polls

Independent candidates look set to play a greater role in the metro municipality after 1 November

Chapter 2.19: Coalitions and oppositions

Journalists Emsie Ferreira and Lizeka Tandwa chat to Mmusi Maimane, Paul Berkowitz and Narend Singh about the state of the opposition

Reality check: Pravin Gordhan has revealed plans to get state-owned
entities into better order. Photo: Halden Krog/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Gordhan on SAA, political interference and moving SOEs out of his department

The minister addresses the future of the country’s state-owned entities and speculation they may be moved from his portfolio

The Cannabis for Private Purposes Act 7 (2024) decriminalised private use, but is inadequate regarding the regulation of the broader recreational environment.. Photo: Supplied

Legalising the cannabis economy takes a Covid-19 hit

The lockdown has prevented public consultations and parliamentary committee meetings on the commercial use of marijuana and hemp

File photo by
David Harrison/M&G

Is Parliament suspended? Political parties in the dark after coronavirus gatherings ban

Hundreds of legislators won’t be able to meet in parliamentary chambers after restrictions on gatherings to curb the spread of Covid-19 disease

“People call us the watchdog of Parliament. I want us to be known as not just a dog that watches, but a dog that bites,” newly appointed Scopa chairperson, Mkhuleko Hlengwa says. (David Harrison/M&G)

IFP confirms its man as new Scopa chair

The M&G understands the ANC offered the position to the IFP in exchange for support in metros lost during 2016 local government elections

The late Pravin Gordhan. (Oupa Nkosi)

Give SAA a year or two to recover — Gordhan

Privatisation is not on the agenda the minister says

ANC skips Wits election debate

The ANC was absent from a debate among political parties about economic policies held on Wednesday at the University of Witwatersrand.

IFP calls for hard labour for convicts

Hard labour for hardened convicts was one of the proposals presented at the launch of the Inkatha Freedom Party’s (IFP) Purpose, Vision and Values Programme in Durban on…

Sugar-cane killing accused to apply for bail

The case against two men and a woman accused of abducting and murdering five women whose bodies were found in sugar-cane fields on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast was on Wednesday…