The Zuma ghost walks, and Cyril freezes in fear
Cyril Ramaphosa should take a leaf out of Donald Trump’s playbook if he wants to counter the Zuma factor that’s holding him back…
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Thirteen years later, the Gaddafi billions are still missing
In 2011, billions of dollars were flown into SA from Libya. To date, no-one knows what’s happened to them…
MK, EFF, ANC: A trifecta of trouble for South Africa?
The populist parties are growling at each other. The ANC is somewhat paralysed by internal divisions. And Cyril is stuck in the middle…
The autocrats club
You can’t claim South African politics is without irony. There’s corruption-accused Jacob Zuma, once the face of the “moral regeneration movement”. A public protector…
The madness of King Louis 1 of Bronkhorstspruit
I sometimes sit in a restaurant and try to work out the “boeresom” of the place – the kind of calculation you do on…
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Coal ‘evangelist’ July Ndlovu bows out
The Thungela CEO talks renewables, coal prices, Eskom – and…
South Africa’s birds: The price of extinction
South Africa’s birds are disappearing, and it’s going to cost…
Did the banks implode Murray & Roberts?
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Paid to fail: How South Africa’s SOE chiefs are creaming it
About 160 public sector CEOs took home R580m in pay…
