FORMER South African president Thabo Mbeki says the ANC has to decide what must happen if a parliamentary process finds that President…
ROLLING case studies in chaos. Crises engulfing the government by the hour. It seems near impossible that this chaos can be bottled…
By Dr. Echey Ijezie EVEN after the novel coronavirus exposed glaring flaws in the world’s collective ability to respond to infectious disease…
“ THE president listened.” This was the message from South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya on Monday when he announced…
SOUTH Africa faces another 18 months of regular power cuts and won’t be able to end them until sufficient generating capacity is added to the electricity grid to meet demand, Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said. “We need another year or year-and-a-half to get out of this,” Oberholzer said at the Agri SA conference…
The UK economy unexpectedly shrank in August, strengthening predictions that it will fall into a recession. The surprise 0.3% drop came as factories and consumer-facing businesses struggled, according to official figures. Analysts thought the economy would stall in August but not shrink as costs mount for businesses and households. Prices are rising at their fastest…
A CHARGE of theft has been laid against President Cyril Ramaphosa reportedly by a businessman who claims his energy plan presented to the head of state was stolen and used without his involvement. The case of theft, which police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe confirmed, was opened at the Booysens police station in Johannesburg last month. Mathe…
IN A grand ceremony at the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin is expected to sign socalled “accession treaties” for parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk,…
IN 1991, Queen Elizabeth II visited Zimbabwe for the meeting of the heads of government in the Commonwealth, a community of former…
SOUTH Africa is facing a risk of an unprecedented level of load shedding this week after units at two of its coal-fired…
