Informal Workers in Lagos Are Left to Cope With Devastating Floods Alone: Why Things Must Change
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
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Eastern Cape Judge Suspended Over Alleged Racist Incident
Judge Belinda Hartle to face Judicial Conduct Tribunal
Kariega Residents Protest Over Electricity Woes
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says it is attending to over 1,100 cable and line faults across the metro
Why Proudly South African Clothes Are Being Made in “Sweatshops”
92% of clothing manufacturers in Newcastle do not comply with Bargaining Council rules, says the council’s lawyer
Municipality Goes to Court to Block Corruption Report
The North West municipality has ignored an MEC’s instruction to “initiate a process of revocation” of the appointment of three senior officials
Constitutional Court Rules Asylum Seekers Once Rejected Cannot Reapply
The majority judgment found that the Refugees Act is silent on reapplications and the court would come dangerously close to legislating if it allowed these
The Conversation Africa: 11 Years of Impact
The Conversation Africa marks its eleventh anniversary this year with more than 12,000 articles celebrating varying levels of impact.
Here’s How Much Money UCT Needs to Rebuild Its Historic Library
It’ll be “a space that celebrates African memory, identity and creative expression” says library boss
Tshwane’s Deputy Mayor Shielded With a Fine
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) called on the Gauteng MEC for Local Government, Mr Jacob Mamabolo, to intervene after the Deputy Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Mr Eugene Modise, was sanctioned with only a fine equivalent to two months’ salary following serious irregularities. This follows the governing ANC/ActionSA/EFF coalition’s own admission that Mr Modise was […]
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Minister Cannot Fix FMD With Words Alone
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is cautiously optimistic that the Minister of Agriculture, Mr John Steenhuisen, will tomorrow announce a coherent Section 10 plan for vaccinating against foot-and-mouth disease, as ordered by the court. In fact, it is unthinkable that this course of action had to be taken. Private veterinarians in South Africa possess […]
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New SASSA System Piloted in Bellville Office
The agency’s plans to improve service by using technology
AI Policy Debacle Shows Dangers of Technology Used Without Public Oversight
SA’s draft policy contained sources fabricated by a large language model
4 November LGE Marks a New Dawn of Hope
The date for the upcoming local government elections was announced today. South Africans can now set their sights on 4 November 2026 as the day to break free from the chains of decay in which the ANC has entangled local governments across the country. 4 November is a Wednesday, just under six months from now. […]
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Eastern Cape Premier Apologises to Angry Taxi Operators
Province failed to pay for scholar transport
Post Office Workers March in Pretoria
SAFTU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi leads protest over retrenchments and low wages
Lesotho’s Prisons in Bad Shape Despite Years of Recommendations
Tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra are spreading in the country’s severely overcrowded prisons
A Shameful Judicial Record
Late judgments hit a new high in 2025, crossing the 300 mark
How Renting a Photocopier Helped Destroy a School
A North West school owes over R600,000 after defaulting on rental agreements for two photocopiers and a phone system. Meanwhile 789 learners are left with broken toilets and crumbling classrooms
Precautionary Suspension of Masemola Welcomed
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the precautionary suspension of the National Police Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola, pending the outcome of the criminal case against him. Evidence given before the Madlanga Commission and testimony heard by the parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on Organised Crime and Police Involvement left President Cyril Ramaphosa with no other […]
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Emfuleni Sends Office-Bearers Abroad Amid Dire Financial Situation
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is strongly opposed to the decision by the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging) to send five delegates to this year’s World Cities Summit, scheduled to take place in Singapore from 14 to 16 June. The international trip was enabled by the ANC, which steamrolled […]
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Unfounded Attacks on Competent Emergency Services Head
It will be a dark day when the Tshwane Metro Council yields to political pressure from the EFF and an unrecognised trade union, Public Service and Commercial Union, and strips the Metro’s head of Emergency Services, Moshema Mosia, of his office. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) regards the EFF’s latest onslaught on the City […]
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Nigeria’s New Election Law Leaves Gaps: 5 Reforms for Free, Fair and Credible Polls
Nigeria’s new electoral act doesn’t tackle some of the real problems of electoral governance.
Thousands of Grants Suspended After Sassa Review Process in Limpopo
SASSA says no grant has been incorrectly stopped, but beneficiaries are battling