Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize honours a lifelong fight against impunity and challenges South Africa to revive the courageous leadership that shaped its democratic transition.
JSE delistings are not always a bad thing, as has been the case in the woeful saga of Tongaat, which once enjoyed blue-chip status. But it is a worrying trend overall.
An equality court has ordered Dawood Lagardien to pay R200,000 after finding that his conduct amounted to hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment, and referred the matter to the National Prosecuting Authority for a criminal investigation.
As Waseem Carrim departs NSFAS for the Road Accident Fund, he reflects on performance gains, student engagement, and the chronic governance churn hindering long-term stability.
The arrest of three suspects over Elizabeth Moselakgomo’s smartwatch offers a breakthrough, but her family still awaits answers as the search for her killer continues.
She snorkelled in a giant pothole, directed traffic at a busy intersection, snuck into the abandoned Metro centre and deejayed at a popular nightclub during a one-year mayoral campaign blitz. But a few weeks before the local government elections, Helen Zille is laser-focused on bringing her party enough votes to lead the City of Johannesburg’s council. She sat down for a talk with Yvonne Grimbeek.
While some Constitutional Court justices questioned whether an IEC software button could disenfranchise voters, others pressed the ANC on why it failed to follow a process it had known and used for years. Judgment has been reserved, with the court promising an urgent decision.
The Austrian writer understood the absurdity of human vanity and our endless hunger for recognition. Trump’s furious response to the Nobel peace prize could almost have come from one of his novels – except that this time the narrator is the president of the United States of America.
GOMA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila has launched a new political-military coalition to replace the AFC-M23 alliance fighting government forces in eastern Congo, taking a more direct role in an insurgency he had previously stopped short of openly backing.
In recent decades we’ve seen huge advances against several types of cancer. In a still-unfolding example, South Africa’s massive HPV vaccination campaign is set to slash cervical cancer rates in the coming decades. Biénne Huisman unpacks the details in part 3 of a Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer in South Africa.
