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Editorial: It’s dangerous to other foreigners (Photo Archive)

Editorial: Serial wrongdoers get away with it

​An often cited definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result

The lack of a secure electricity supply in many African states is a chronic obstacle to doing business

SA counts cost of poor governance

If investors take a proactive oversight role, capital can be allocated to well-run entities

Auditor general Kimi Makwetu.

Parastatal waste equals tax shortfall

The amount misspent by state-owned enterprises may almost match the R50-billion budget gap

Your guide to investing where your heart urges you to

Is the era of parastatal paralysis over?

The SABC shake-up and ANC shift bode well for the reform of other public enterprises

Parastatals’ poor record hits home

Parastatals’ poor record hits home

‘Governance gaps’ and diminished confidence are eroding investors’ appetite for SOE bonds

Speaking after the match

Gigaba: ‘We’ll work within the law to transform SA’

Malusi Gigaba says the land issue must be resolved speedily to avoid Zimbabwe-style invasions.

Electricity pylons at Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power plant on January 9 2015 in Cape Town.

​Divide and conquer, Eskom

The state utility could thrive if it splits its generation and transmission businesses, writes Bruce Raw.

Barcelona’s Luis Suarez and Gerard Pique before yesterday’s match.

​Fiscal risk: Beware the parastatals

The first statement of its kind, it signals the state’s concern over its exposure to Eskom and others.

During his testimony on Friday, Eskom treasurer Andre Pillay revealed the implications of Eskom’s funding crisis under the leadership of its former chief financial officer Anoj Singh. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Will the ANC turn South Africa into a developmental welfare state?

Throughout modern history, state-owned enterprises have played a critical role in shaping successful paths for developing economies.

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) denies that there was anything exceptional about January’s payment run. But many people have complained to #PayTheGrants and Black Sash.

Treasury’s bids to end corruption are peeling back a curiously connected gravy trail

The tangled web of murky dealings at parastatals hints at how state procurement has been fiddledå

Fix it: President Jacob Zuma must do everything the public protector said and the ANC must get to the bottom of who was responsible for the unauthorised Nkandla upgrades

Letters to the editor: April 8 to 15 2016

Readers write in about the ANC, President Zuma, parastatals and the Guptas.

Letters to the editor: April 1 to 7 2016

Readers write in about state capture, whiteness, the ‘colonial literary system’, and the Kardashians.

The report reveals that Ben Ngubane wrote a letter to Lynne Brown titled ‘Suspension of contact in any form whatsoever and/or commercial relationship with the Mail and Guardian, City Press and the Sunday Times’. (Gallo)

Editorial: Give privatisation a fair hearing

There is no sense in trying to impose socialist solutions that barely worked even in the advanced industrial countries

State forced to reconsider review of parastatals

Jacob Zuma has done an about-turn and will implement the recommendations of a 2013 report on management of floundering state-owned entities.

Nation must vent its rage against the rot in our parastatals

Those who are involved in these shenanigans have nothing to fear if the nation simply looks the other way instead of taking action against wrongdoing.

Loving: Nola Darling paints in her brownstone studio. Photos: David Lee/Netflix

Parastatals weigh on SA’s future

The financial health of the country’s parastatals is so important that the budget review document has a new chapter dedicated to it.

Eskom, South Africa and the dark ages

As Eskom forces the country into deterioration and gives rise to dark forces, there is little promise of an age of enlightenment.

The department of international relations announced that 93 South Africans have been repatriated. But others are still waiting to get back home.

SAA’s boundless flights of fancy

The removal of the feckless Malusi Gigaba was prudent, but he has left a huge mess to clear up.

South Africans queue to vote in the 1994 elections.

Row over Eskom’s R43m Gupta breakfast deal

The R43m New Age deal raises board eyebrows over the former chief executive’s alleged role.

Brown: Parastatals, clean up your act or we’ll do it for you

New Minister of Public Enterprises Lynne Brown vows there will be changes at the top level of many of South Africa’s state-owned enterprises.