Outa governance is ‘out of line’
Duvenage’s spending on donations and advertising without consulting his board has caused a parade of execs to leave the anti-corruption watchdog
Saftu strike ‘threatens worker unity’
The strike was ignored by three other federations, who described the action as a miscalculation
No pedal to the metal as bus strike rolls on
Drivers and unions are fighting for wages, the rights of dual drivers and the foot-to-the-pedal rule, which they call exploitative
Slice of life: ‘Cooking has helped heal me’
“Cooking is my life. Other people want to cook for money or just to pass time or just for the sake of cooking.
When you cook for someone, you have to cook with love.”
Cyril ‘has no power’ to fire Supra
The beleaguered North West premier will have to answer to the ANC’s top six before facing its NEC
As premier hangs tough, delivery hangs in the balance
‘The pressure on Mahumapelo to step down is also not the first time attempts to unseat him have been made’
Presidency shake-up as JZ cronies leave
Deputy President David Mabuza is bringing top civil servants from his previous office as premier of Mpumalanga to bolster his team.
No relief for the Komape family
The judge dismissed their R2-million claim for constitutional damages, saying justice would be better served if all pupils had safe toilets
Tainted, but Rasool’s back with a bang
ANC poll czar in the Cape pins his hopes on Ramaphosa’s new dawn and the DA’s infighting
Boost for Zuma faction as KZN conferences are greenlit
The upcoming provincial and regional conferences have been given the go-ahead, giving the faction impetus in its bid to re-establish a base
The death penalty and judges who had to apply it
Franny Rabkin tracks down the court records of two young men sentenced to death by two very different judges
Would-be Xolobeni miner has ‘broken’ West Coast promises
The Australian mining company seeking the right to mine in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape has been lashed for its treatment of a Western Cape community and accused of breaching its legal obligations.
Payback time for Ingonyama
The Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB) has been ordered by the Auditor General to pay Treasury the millions of rands in mining royalties it has been collecting since 1994.
HEALTH:
North West: Why a bigger crisis looms
Provincial medicine shortages may be just the beginning
Aids and Gambia’s legacy of lies
Former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh will be the first African head of state to be tried for violating the rights of HIV-positive people
AFRICA:
‘Zambia becoming another Zim’
Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema’s months in jail have changed his priorities
Taste-testing Ethiopia’s first Pizza Hut
The chain is making inroads in Addis Ababa, but will it stand the test of time?
Tensions rise in Madagascar ahead of vote
Thousands of Madagascan opposition supporters returned to the streets on Monday to protest against the president
Somaliland may poison its holy grail
Independence is so close but Hargeisa may be sacrificing its values in its quest to achieve it
BUSINESS:
Steinhoff dances to zombie drums
The beleaguered retailer will struggle to get up off its knees under the weight of crushing bills
Shake up economy, says think-tank
South Africa must develop its production capacity and cut its reliance on resource exports, a report says
Minimum wage vs the robot age
As digital technology advances, World Bank argues for lower pay floors, combined with basic income grants and social insurance
‘Poverty wage’ meant to save jobs, says government
‘To avoid job losses, what do you do? You ensure that you create an environment that will sustain jobs’
Rural migrants better off in cities
Figures show that those who moved had a much better chance of escaping from poverty
FRIDAY:
Belonging and the impulse to let go
On a recent visit to his old boarding school, Kwanele Sosibo glimpsed his emotional backstory.
Mapping out the new Zim
The pan-African magazine marks the end of the Mugabe era as a moment of imaginative, if not political, liberation.
You didn’t hear wrong
Okay Wasabi’s parodies, sparked by misheard lyrics, put an absurdist spin on local hip-hop culture.
The house that women built
Women vocalists are getting the credit they deserve from house vocalist Jackie Queens
The gods inside
Akwaeke Emezi’s powerful debut novel offers a complex vision of the trans self, inspired by Igbo cosmology.
Names of the nation, annotated
It’s more than a collection of South African names; this dictionary expands African knowledge systems
Ssh! I’m cooking up a storm
I was swooning even before I got there — about the fact that I needed to follow written directions, because the place isn’t listed on Google Maps.
Reading between the lives
The National Library of South Africa is marking its 200th birthday with a beguiling revelation of its treasures, writes Cayleigh Bright
Great shots, but a bit off target
A grand cinematic experiment, Five Fingers for Marseilles fails to resolve its themes as a South African western
COMMENT & ANALYSIS:
White women, black men: Same WhatsApp group
The position of white Afrikaner women and black men illustrates the limitations of a binary view
Editorial independence is sacred
Last Friday, several titles in the Independent stable published front-page reports, with a “Staff Writer” byline, that smeared journalists
Letters to the Editor: April 26 to May 3
Our readers write in about Unfreedom Day and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Supra’s doing a Daddy on us
And Ace says all’s on track; the regional and provincial conferences will happen (sometime)
Address youth’s concerns and they’ll vote
They are concerned about unemployment, don’t trust political leaders and feel excluded
Corporal punishment feeds the violence in society
The high court judgment in the case of YG versus the State in 2017 banned corporal punishment in the home, which, in effect, bans it in all places
Motherhood be damned
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s death illustrates how society defines and judges women — by their biological function
Fifth Column: Spooky! It was the goofy lad
Everyone having apparently gone Stratcom-befok in the past few weeks, I find myself thinking back to those long-gone days when we toiled at this newspaper under the shadow, and doubtless the watchful eyes, of the apartheid security state.
No tidy truths in the post-colony
Recent debate exposes both student activists’ and academics’ blind spots on decolonisation
Free State university decries financial exclusion article
UFS has rejected the perception created by Thato Rossouw in ‘The cold shadow of exclusion’
SPORT:
Blame game won’t stop hooligans
Getting to the root cause of football fans going wild goes beyond policing, but no one’s looking
The tries that defined Habana
The record-breaking wing will be remembered as one of South Africa’s greatest rugby players
Salah’s on a magic carpet ride
Whisper it, but Liverpool’s red-hot Egyptian is now a dark horse for the Ballon d’Or
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