Government
Sisulu drafting amendments to eviction laws
Minister for Human Settlements Lindiwe Sisulu is in the process of drafting amendments to eviction legislation, in line with the report of the commission of inquiry into the Lwandle evictions last year.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 4 February 2015
Assault at Home Affairs
People watched in shock inside the Khayelitsha Home Affairs on Monday morning as a man was beaten and thrown outside by what appeared to be a Home Affairs employee.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 3 February 2015
Call for youth subsidy to be scrapped
Labour and education rights groups have called for the immediate scrapping of the youth wage subsidy following the release of UCT research on its effectiveness.
Barbara Maregele
News | 22 January 2015
Game of drones: City tests underway
City of Cape Town drone tests are underway, with a new model demonstrated to officials and journalists last week. Critics are uninformed, malicious and have watched “too many movies”, officials say.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 3 December 2014
SACP: the biggest potential loser in Cosatu crisis
Politically, the biggest potential loser in the ongoing and increasingly bitter fracas within Cosatu and its affiliates is the smallest member of the ANC-led tripartite alliance, the South African Communist Party (SACP). That party’s Medium Term Vision (MTV), described in some party documents as a “ten-year plan” looks close to being in tatters.
Terry Bell
Opinion | 30 November 2014
Phiyega reveals delays in firearms system investigation
Police commissioner Riah Phiyega commits to completing the criminal investigation into the botched SAPS Firearms Control System (FCS) by February next year. Yet, the slow pace of the investigation to date is evidenced by several details.
Daneel Knoetze
News | 14 November 2014
Marikana: Phiyega “not fit for office”
Riah Phiyega is not fit to hold the office of National Commissioner of Police, say the Marikana Commission’s evidence leaders.
Alide Dasnois
News | 5 November 2014
Marikana: Lonmin’s broken promises
Lonmin has broken its promises to build housing for employees, say the Marikana Commission's evidence leaders.
Alide Dasnois
News | 5 November 2014
Marikana: how the police “constructed” their story
Police evidence to the Marikana Commission was "constructed" at a meeting in Potchefstroom soon after the massacre of 34 miners in 2012, according to the commission’s evidence leaders.
Alide Dasnois
News | 5 November 2014