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Fighting corruption in healthcare systems is everyone’s responsibility. The health of our continent depends on it.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Health: African Anti-Corruption Day is a hollow ritual in the face of entrenched fraud

If one looks at the unchecked abuse of resources, then it is not surprising that the continent’s health system is struggling

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

MK party strife intensifies as ‘nepotism’ allegations grow louder

uMkhonto weSizwe members have accused leaders of double standards, saying Duduzile-Zuma Sambudla is being shielded from disciplinary action

Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema

Why Zambia’s president is popular abroad but a disappointment at home

A year into Hakainde Hichilema’s first term as president reveals he is more interested in colluding with the West and dividing the country along ethnic lines

Many ANC leaders and officials have been implicated in allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing; Zuma’s is merely the most prominent case

The charges against Zuma must be viewed in the context of the ANC leadership crisis

Many ANC leaders and officials have been implicated in allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing; Zuma’s is merely the most prominent case

The panel found that, for the time being, further support should be confined to extending the social distress relief that was rolled out for the Covid-19 pandemic.

Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Covid-19 has exposed, among a host of other things, the glaring gaps that appear when the wrong people have been put in the job

With more resources than other provinces, health workers in Gauteng still say they do not have enough protective equipment to ensure safety when working with Covid-19 patients. (Paul Botes, M&G)

Nurses ‘threatened’ after refusing to attend to people in quarantine

Sixteen people identified during mass testing in the Eastern Cape were first taken to a B&B before being taken to a hospital

Waste not, want not: A woman sorting plastic items from trash to be sold at recycling shops in Manila. The city – and the country – is organised into barangays, and refuse collection and recycling schemes are the responsibility of this fourth tier of government.  (Maria Tan/AFP)

How to refresh SA’s jaded democracy

We should look to the Philippines, where barangays, or neighbourhood governments, help to empower communities

Former president of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos.

Angola’s dos Santos family empire in the firing line

Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from the country’s vast…

Dysfunctional: An unhappy scene is playing out at the Market Theatre in inner city Jo’burg. (Photo: Oupa Nkosi)

Drama rocks Market Theatre

Allegations and counter-allegations are flying between the board’s chair, management and staff

Isabel dos Santos has been fired as head of the Sonangol state oil company.

Daughter of Angola’s ex-president sacked as state oil chief

​Angolan President Joao Lourenco has fired his predecessor’s daughter, Isabel dos Santos, from her influential post as head of the state oil company

CSIR chief claims ‘state capture’

The council’s boss feels he is being targeted for opposing a bid to meddle in a tender .

Political observers: SA has become a police state

Several political observers have hinted that a recent spate of incidents – dismissed as random acts of crime – may be the workings of state security.

Khensani Maseko was buried at the Calgro M3 Memorial Park in Nasrec on Thursday. Her family, in a reference to her rape by her former boyfriend, condemned all violence against women. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Rent-seeking is gobbling up our economy

When the politically connected keep gorging at the trough, bona fide black talent is kept back, writes William Gumede.

Using AI without critical reflection widens the gap between relevance and convenience.

Jobs for pals at state nuclear firm

A whistle-blower has claimed that the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation created a job for the chief executive’s wife, Ngeniswa Tyobeka.

Splinter cell: ANC secretary general Ace Magashule.

Magashule: Cadre deployment is here to stay

"We [the ANC] are not ashamed of cadre deployment. We will continue to implement it without fail," says the Free State premier.

What Mugabe’s red carpet tumble means

The president’s fall on the red carpet made him mortal – but laid bare the nation’s hate and hurt.

President Jacob Zuma’s daughter

Jacob Zuma’s daughter cleared for duty

Thuthukile Zuma’s job as chief of staff at the telecommunications and postal ministry has been okayed, but efforts to change the status quo are afoot.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwean officials deny vice-president’s resignation

While Zimbabwean officials deny vice-president Joice Mujuru’s resignation, President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace has embarked on a smear campaign.

Botswana President Ian Khama wanted lawmakers to vote by a show of hands for his deputy

Botswana court foils president’s attempt to appoint brother as VP

Botswana’s executive has accepted a high court ruling that protects "free and fair election" through a secret ballot, as opposed to a show of hands.

Inside the ANC’s ‘pyramid scheme’

New research has dropped a bombshell about the prevalence of jobs for pals within the ruling party.