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Stolen ammo poses security threat amid f...

Stolen ammo poses security threat amid failure to protect high-risk consignments

The theft of some 1.5-million rounds of ammunition in Durban last week has raised questions about why harbour authorities, the South African Revenue Service and the South African Police Service (SAPS) were unable to protect the high-risk consignment in the current volatile environment in KwaZulu-Natal. Acting minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni this week confirmed […]

IEC to ask the courts to postpone local ...

IEC to ask the courts to postpone local elections

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has adopted recommendations by former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke that this year’s local government elections be postponed from October this year to February next year, in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. IEC chairperson Glen Mashinini told a news conference that the commission had unanimously accepted the findings […]

Making the right moves with the Standard...

Making the right moves with the Standard Bank Business Credit card

As a business owner you want a credit card that allows you to take advantage of opportunities or pay for day-to-day running costs, which is why Standard Bank has launched its new globally accepted Visa Business Credit Card. ​ The Visa business credit card not only gives business owners the license to make the right moves, […]

The youth of Eswatini demand change – an

The youth of Eswatini demand change – and they want it now

A political crisis has engulfed Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). The trigger for protests against the authoritarian monarchy of King Mswati III was the mysterious death of a university student, Thabani Nkomonye, allegedly at the hands of the police. This led to a spontaneous uprising that was met with extreme brutality by the security forces. It is […]

The effects of the recent looting on Sou...

The effects of the recent looting on South Africa’s young democracy

Who could forget that, a little more than 27 years ago, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng were the epicentre of death and destruction, during what history shall forever recall as South Africa’s “low-intensity civil war” of the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. At the risk of inviting much criticism for attempting to quantify the sacrifices made by […]