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Leon Schreiber MP,  DA Shadow Minister for Public Service and Administration 12 December 2019 Attached is a comparison of the previous and current Ministerial Handbooks. After carefully studying the revised ministerial handbook, the Democratic Alliance (DA) is disgusted that the much-hyped new version of the handbook is nothing more than an effort to take the people of South Africa […]

Pierre de Vos, Constitutionally Speaking – 10 December 2019 It is unclear whether the daily power cuts (which on Monday escalated to a previously unknown stage 6 – 3 power cuts a day of between 2½ and 4 hours each) should be blamed on systemic corruption, on incompetence and lack of skill at Eskom, on economic […]

Dear Fellow South African, When I visited Medupi power station for the first time two weeks ago, I was struck by how massive it is. It is one thing to be told in a briefing that, when completed, Medupi will be the fourth largest power stations of its kind in the world; but it is […]

John J Stremlau, Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand In an important new book, South Africa’s foreign policy performance over its first quarter-century democratic governance is put under the spotlight. Professor Eddy Maloka, CEO of the African Peer Review Mechanism, surveys South Africa’s performance in an incisive, accessible, credible account of how […]