1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (761+ words) The latest instalment in the turmoil engulfing the South African Police Service (SAPS) raises an ethical question beyond the personalities occupying senior positions: when a state lawyer advises a public official, to whom does that lawyer owe allegiance? It was…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (905+ words) Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube and the department’s director-general (DG), Mathanzima Mweli, are embroiled in a cold war as Mweli refuses to be subjected to a lifestyle audit by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This is the latest episode in…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (536+ words) “This is not Clicks.” This is how Clicks Group CEO Bertina Engelbrecht reportedly described KwaMakhi, the group’s new township retail format, at its recent launch. Except that it is, and it is also corporate South Africa exactly as we know…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1057+ words) There comes a point where legitimate criticism of a national football federation becomes something entirely different: an attempt by a select group of former players, self-appointed “legends” and football personalities to dictate how the country’s football administration should be conducted....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (859+ words) The ANC wants to block the DA from joining its appeal case at the Electoral Court against the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) refusal to accept a list of candidates from six municipalities that were not “submitted” by the…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (52+ words) TimesLIVE WATCH LIVE | Senzo Meyiwa murder trial The Bafana Bafana player was murdered in 2014 The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumes at the high court in Pretoria on Thursday morning. The case had been postponed due to the interpreter not feeling…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (730+ words) Seconds after Anele Tembe fell from the 10th floor of Cape Town’s Pepperclub Hotel, a resident who saw her lying on the pavement looked towards a balcony and saw Kiernan “AKA” Forbes leaning over the railing and screaming, “Oh my God,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (591+ words) President Cyril Ramaphosa has brushed aside the ANC’s candidate-list crisis as a “little hiccup”, saying it affects only about three percent of the names the party was required to submit for the November 4 local government elections. At the same time,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (602+ words) A teacher in Limpopo has lost his challenge against a three-month suspension without pay after an Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) arbitration found, on a balance of probabilities, that he had assaulted a pupil with a fist after the child…...

5+ day, 2+ min ago   (490+ words) South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) president Barry Hendricks has been suspended with immediate effect, the umbrella body told members in a circular on Wednesday. The Sascoc board took the action at a special meeting held on Monday…...