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By the end of the 1930s petitioning had clearly failed and the organisation practically ceased to exist. The presidency of J. T. Gumede (1927–30)... →
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Delivering the budget speech last Wednesday, Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana said South Africa had reached a “turning point” in its finances.... →
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For Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s new force to succeed, relations with neighbouring countries need to be rebuilt. The Alliance of Sahel States’... →
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SA’s Land System is Broken, but Collective Consent Offers a Way Forward
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South Africa’s land and mining crisis is political and structural, and experts at the 2026 Mining Indaba agree that reform requires collective,... →
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Electricity trading in South Africa, as Etana Energy CEO Evan Rice explained recently, is at once active and in transition. Just how active, is... →
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Action counts, not declarations
LOW-CARBON FUTURE
An offhand remark caught my attention in the last stages of the Brazilian presidency of COP30. Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, the lead... →
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The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in March 2026 marks the end of a political era in the Middle Eastern country. Khamenei... →
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Protecting Black Pensions Is Not “Anti-Black”
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Those who weaponise race to escape accountability betray the very people they claim to champion. I have been called “anti-black.” Let me deal with... →
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The Health of the People Must be the Supreme Law
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Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of... →
