Headline News
DA wants PP steering committee to investigate ANC election campaigning
By: Thabi Shomolekae Updated 39 minutes ago The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday called on Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka to set up a steering committee to investigate what it alleges are... →
Discovery, development are mining’s only true value creation drivers, Barrick highlights 
By: Martin Creamer Updated 1 hour 29 minutes ago Discovery and development are the only true drivers of value creation in the mining industry, Barrick president and CEO Dr Mark Bristow highlighted... →
Motsepe-backed GoSolr plans $537m South Africa expansion
By: Bloomberg Updated 2 hours 46 minutes ago GoSolr, a company backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe and the continent’s biggest bank, plans to spend R10 billion to roll out a... →
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Opinions
South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom but need more diversity
Updated 1 hour 18 minutes ago In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa’s print media. He said the media’s domination by... →
South Africa’s Lemba people: how they view their Jewishness challenges Zionist ideas that identity is linked to one homeland
Updated 1 hour 20 minutes ago A man wearing a yarmulke stands on the edge of a hill, quietly taking in the landscape below as he considers his ancestors and their histories in... →
Global carbon tax urgently needed to manage the climate crisis
Updated 1 hour 28 minutes ago ISS modelling shows that carbon taxing can have major benefits if all nations contribute based on their income status. As the world faces a climate... →
Defending democracy, the Senegalese way
30th April 2024 Senegal’s people stood up to protect their democracy rather than wait for the military or external help. After three tumultuous years, Senegal’s... →
Recommendations
South African Reconciliation Barometer: Looking to the 2024 elections
30th April 2024 South African Reconciliation Barometer: Looking to the 2024 elections This publication is based on a briefing session co-hosted by the Institute... →
Revitalising the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative: a 20-year review
30th April 2024 Since the establishment in 2003 of the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative (GHDI), the world in which humanitarian donors seek to be ‘good’ has... →
With Regard to Borders and Ballots
29th April 2024 The IEC has confirmed that South Africa has 340 parties registered provincially and nationally and thus eligible to participate in the 2024... →
The Making of Manifestos and the Marginalisation of Migrants: A Causal Link?
29th April 2024 Election fever has been ratcheted up several notches over the past few weeks, as one by one various political parties have launched their election... →
Statements
DA calls on the Public Protector to set up an ‘own initiative investigation’ to probe abuse of state funds for electioneering purposes
Updated 49 minutes ago Using the Covid-19 model of ‘own initiative investigation’ by the office of the Public Protector as a precedent, the DA is calling on Advocate... →
Over 350 000 unemployed in eThekwini
Updated 1 hour 31 minutes ago The DA in eThekwini has written to the Head of Economic Development, Lihle Phewa to request that the municipality prioritize job creation and... →
IFP eThekwini Councillors to Boycott State of the City Address
30th April 2024 The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) eThekwini Caucus have unanimously decided to boycott tomorrow’s State of the City Address (SOCA) to be delivered by... →
Paying tribute to boxing legend Dingaan "Rose of Soweto" Thobela
30th April 2024 It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of the legendary Dingaan "Rose of Soweto" Thobela. As the DA, we extend our deepest condolences... →
Press Offices
Disciplinary hearings must be above board
Updated 2 hours 3 minutes ago There are several unfair methods that might be used at disciplinary hearings, appeal hearings and arbitration hearings. These unsavoury tactics... →
LAC finds that an employee who was dismissed for recreational cannabis use at home was unfairly discriminated against
30th April 2024 In the recent case of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a Division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd (JA86/22) [2024] ZALAC (23 April... →
PRECCA updates emphasise third-party accountability and proactive anti-corruption
30th April 2024 South Africa is continuously suffering from the effects of corruption and drainage of resources, some of which were highlighted in the State... →
LAC finds that an employee who was dimissed for recreational cannabis use at home was unfairly discriminated against
29th April 2024 In the recent case of Enever v Barloworld Equipment South Africa, a Division of Barloworld South Africa (Pty) Ltd (JA86/22) [2024] ZALAC (23 April... →
