11+ hour, 10+ min ago   (439+ words) The department of health is blaming you for providing inaccurate population numbers. Do you accept that? If your numbers are accurate, then according to the department of health we’re facing an immunisation crisis. But the experts agree we’re not, don’t…...

4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (879+ words) Conflicting accounts of when a call for help was made to hotel reception before Anele Tembe’s fatal fall emerged during a formal inquest into her death at the Cape Town magistrate’s court this week, raising questions about the timeline of…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (819+ words) For millions of South Africans, the problem is not whether they want private health-care cover. It is whether they can afford it. As the Sunday Times recently reported, the cost of health insurance is growing an estimated 14%-16% a year, while…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (817+ words) “Leave me alone, get away from me.” These were the words Roberto Stefanutto told the Cape Town magistrate’s court he heard a woman scream moments before Anele Tembe fell from the 10th floor of the city’s Pepperclub Hotel in April 2021. The…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (565+ words) The illicit economy has become too big to ignore, and South Africa can no longer afford to treat illicit trade as a peripheral problem for the police, customs officials or individual industries to deal with. A comprehensive study by Econometrix…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (621+ words) The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has put over-the-top (OTT) service providers ― including multinationals Netflix and WhatsApp, and the country’s telecommunications giants ― on notice over the pricing of their services. For the telecoms industry, the mooted inquiry announced…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (750+ words) When a 27-year-old KwaZulu-Natal woman discovered she was 28 weeks pregnant, the news came as a shock. She and her husband, both relying on the oral contraceptive Yaz Plus, had never planned for another child. She was on the contraceptive pill…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (298+ words) For three decades, South Africa has been locked in a high-stakes struggle to define the relationship between capital and its developmental mandate. This struggle is not academic; it is the lived reality of millions excluded from the mainstream economy, trapped…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (937+ words) The auditor-general (AG) has found that the appointment of board members at 15 sector education and training authorities (Setas) was irregular, as key governance rules were flouted. Higher education & training minister Buti Manamela last year announced the appointment of various boards…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1035+ words) A senior public-sector employee has been caught in an alleged double-dipping scandal that has exposed the insurance sector education and training authority (Inseta) management’s years-long infringement of administrative laws and public sector governance. Gloria Mnguni, a senior specialist for long-term…...