The government’s lockdown regulations are “no longer rationally connected” to slowing the spread of Covid-19, are not well thought out and consequently encroach on the Bill of Rights. In a North Gauteng High Court judgment on Tuesday, judge Norman Davis declared that the regulations promulgated by cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma […]

‘Margaret Thatcher’s government attempted to thwart the University of Lancaster’s plan to award an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela, who at the time was 22 years into his jail term under the South African apartheid regime, documents show. Worried the move may embarrass the British royal family, Foreign Office minister Richard Luce wrote to the […]

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‘President Jacob Zuma is not a fool. He makes gaffes every week and has no idea what constitutionality means. But he is not a fool. He might not read – as has been alleged – but that does not mean he does not know what levers have to be cranked to ensure that he never […]

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‘Labor unrest and Washington’s threats involving participation in AGOA poses challenges for ANC government Members of the National Education and Health Care Workers Union (NEHAWU), an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), are defying an interdict (injunction) to end their strike and demonstrations at the Parliament building in Cape Town which […]

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‘The university students have been furious, as their cry “Fees must fall!” rang out on campuses and sites of political power across this society. An historic victory over South African neoliberalism was just won through the most intense three-week burst of activist mobilization since liberation from apartheid in 1994. The liberation movement rulers in the […]

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‘Universities remain closed as protests continue at University of Witwatersrand and other campuses South African President Jacob Zuma announced a moratorium on tuition increases of six percent on Oct. 23. These fee hikes were scheduled to go into effect for 2016 as Africa’s most industrialized state faces a burgeoning economic crisis of sluggish growth and […]

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‘President Jacob Zuma has appealed to all companies – particularly those who do business with the state – to donate money to the ANC, warning that those who did not do so would be in “danger”. He made the remarks while addressing international and local guests attending the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum gala dinner at […]

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‘Thousands of South Africans have held demonstrations in Pretoria and Cape Town to voice anger at widespread corruption, amid a host of graft scandals and a stagnant economy. Nearly 4,000 demonstrators took to the streets on Wednesday in the two cities to condemn corruption in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party as well as […]

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‘With the current world bank system having been established a while ago, time has come for new financial institutions to be developed globally, South Africa’s President Zuma told RT. BRICS and its New Development Bank is one of such alternatives, he said. “We’ve had these old banks that have been established many years back. The […]

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