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- Proteas to face India at Kingsmead tonight
Proteas captain Aiden Markram does not believe playing T20 International world champions India at Kingsmead in Durban tonight (5pm start) in the first home international match of the summer will bring up any bad memories of their defeat in the World Cup final earlier this year.
- Significance of Trump’s triumph
The most conspicuous aspect of Donald Trump’s triumph is that it exposed the failure of the mass media’s relentless agenda of negative, disparaging reporting and opinion of him.
- Trump makes dramatic comeback to White House
He is back, the convicted felon! Yes, Donald Trump made history and earned his bragging rights, becoming only the second former president after Grover Cleveland to make a comeback to the White House in 130 years.
- Murrayfield - the place to be
"It's guid to be merry and wise,
- Effective strategies for resolving conflicts with friends
Unless all parties are meeting with the goal of reconciliation do not agree to meet.
- President Ramaphosa must honour BELA Act commitment
With just over one month until the window of consultation closes on clauses 4 and 5 of the BELA Act, the DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to reject yesterday’s reckless demand of the ANC Study Group on Basic Education to immediately promulgate all sections of the BELA Act.
- Major sewer maintenance work in Durban CBD
The eThekwini Municipality’s Water and Sanitation Unit will begin extensive sewage infrastructure maintenance work on Margaret Mncadi Avenue in Durban today.
- Protesting Sadtu members confront Gwarube during visit to Maritime school
BASIC Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube was met by protesting members of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) during a visit to the Maritime School of Excellence in Durban yesterday.
- Bold solutions for electoral reform needed
ActionSA has made an official submission to the Electoral Review Consultation Panel (ERCP) to propose an alternative electoral model for South Africa that will increase voter turnout, enhance the quality of public representatives and introduce lasting accountability.
- King vows to protect ‘land of the Zulus’
Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini said that he would do everything in his power to protect the land of the Zulus in what appeared to be a response to having to account to government officials on matters regarding the Ingonyama Trust.
Featured documents
- Farmgate implicates Cape Town property developer as ‘central figure’
A CAPE TOWN-based property developer has been named as an alleged central figure in helping President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special adviser, Bejani Chauke, store more than $20 million in cash three weeks after the Phala Phala farm scandal was exposed....
- Auditor’s responsibilities through the looking glass
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- Illusion of superiority and threats it holds for humankind
ONCE again, we witnessed the phenomenal ability of Western mainstream media to ignore the reality and pretend that some things never happened and some events never took place, regardless of how important those things and events might have been....
- China’s strategic blueprint has always been transparent
Q: The CCP has presided over a notably successful foreign policy that has seen the emergence of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. What have been the greatest benefits of these initiatives for your country?...
- Peace, security and justice in our beloved South Africa
We call on all democratic and non-partisan citizens, community- based organisations (CBOs), faith-based-organisations (FBOs), structured and non-structured coalitions, associations and movements to join us in our call for implementation of sustainable peace and security for all citizens of our...
- Change to ANC electoral system is urgently needed
THE ugly scenes and prolonged delays during the ANC conference in the Eastern Cape recently were another terrible advertising instalment of Brand ANC....
- Inflation targeting, the SARB and SA’s moribund economy
THE STAGGERING economic transformation of Asia from the poorest continent in the world in the 1960s to the centre of global commerce and industry today cannot be explained without examining the extraordinary role of its countries’ reserve banks....
- Q & A: Chris Harmse’s 2022 highs and lows and what he foresees in 2023
The biggest challenge will be to keep the lights on. Eskom may collapse totally. This may push the economy in energy, as crime and looting like the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng saga of last year may re-appear....
- Build international co-operation in EAEU on mutual respect
ON THE eve of the South African BRICS chairmanship scheduled for this year, I would like to point out that the world is now undergoing an irreversible transformation to become multipolar and, as I believe, more equitable and fair....