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Getting Ekurhuleni working again through delivery and accountabilityA city that works is a city you can rely on. When roads are maintained, electricity is steady, water systems hold up, and the administration runs without endless delays, everything else starts to lift. Certainty attracts investment. Investment…Khathutshelo Rasilingwane5 min read

A brave news worldAcross South Africa, audiences are changing where they get their news and whom they trust. A new class of independent, or “indie”, information providers is exerting significant influence over the public conversation, leveraging blogs, social…

SOUTH AFRICA POLITICS12 JUN 2026Coalition Governments BlueprintsAs South Africa transitions into an era of coalition governance, moving away from one-party domination, the Dutch model of consensus-based coalition government, with its emphasis on consultation and a neutral public service, offers crucial…

Youth are not the future but the presentOne of the commendable and often overlooked facts about the youth of 1976 and the Young Lions generation of the 1980s is that they did not wait for a Messiah to emerge from somewhere to free them from the yoke of apartheid. While advocating…