7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (819+ words) For millions of South Africans, the problem is not whether they want private health-care cover. It is whether they can afford it. As the Sunday Times recently reported, the cost of health insurance is growing an estimated 14%-16% a year, while…...

9+ hour, 1+ min ago   (905+ words) Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube and the department’s director-general (DG), Mathanzima Mweli, are embroiled in a cold war as Mweli refuses to be subjected to a lifestyle audit by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). This is the latest episode in…...

9+ hour, 4+ min ago   (659+ words) Pikitup chair Maxwell Nedzamba says the Johannesburg metro’s financing model is at the centre of the waste collection crisis in the city. Nedzamba told the Sunday Times that the policy governing the city’s coffers needed an overhaul. “There is a…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (565+ words) The illicit economy has become too big to ignore, and South Africa can no longer afford to treat illicit trade as a peripheral problem for the police, customs officials or individual industries to deal with. A comprehensive study by Econometrix…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (310+ words) MultiChoice is overhauling DStv’s package line-up for the first time in 15 years, with standalone sports and movies packages. The new packages, which launch on September 17, expand access to channels including M-Net, kykNET and Mzansi Magic, while giving more customers access…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (621+ words) The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has put over-the-top (OTT) service providers ― including multinationals Netflix and WhatsApp, and the country’s telecommunications giants ― on notice over the pricing of their services. For the telecoms industry, the mooted inquiry announced…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (298+ words) For three decades, South Africa has been locked in a high-stakes struggle to define the relationship between capital and its developmental mandate. This struggle is not academic; it is the lived reality of millions excluded from the mainstream economy, trapped…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (605+ words) South African households have been buffeted by an onslaught of electricity, water, petrol, transport, health-care and communication costs rising faster than overall inflation, while worrying evidence points to consumers not always benefiting from lower input costs in several food markets....

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (248+ words) Meta’s landmark settlement with 52 US attorneys-general has become a global reference point for online safety, with direct relevance for Africa because platform safeguards increasingly shape expectations beyond the jurisdictions where they are negotiated. Although the settlement applies to US states…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (548+ words) The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is, undoubtedly, one of the country’s finest institutions and, as far as credibility goes, ranks among the very best electoral bodies on the continent — if not in the world. This is a reputation…...