Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Niren Tolsi is a freelance journalist whose interests include social justice, citizen mobilisation and state violence, protest, the Constitution and Constitutional Court, football and Test cricket.
The majority of the more than 100 people killed in the province have been ANC members, but now witnesses, and even police officers, appear to be on hit lists.
Former president Jacob Zuma spent his week testifying to the commission on state capture by deflecting, misdirecting and sticking with his strategy of crying victim.
Bigwigs in the prosecuting authority played their part in Zuma’s godly game by destabilising the NPA and ensuring the prosecution of people considered enemies of the former president’s regime.
A letter purportedly proving that a high-level meeting took place in 2003 to discuss Jacob Zuma’s prosecution is the latest twist in the former president’s appeal for a permanent stay of prosecution.
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer says he is the victim of a ‘pattern of behaviour’ that has made his name synonymous with corruption, while Zuma takes pot shots at Cyril Ramaphosa.
eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede is facing charges of fraud, racketeering and corruption that implicate 62 city councillors. But how did she rise to such a powerful position?
As Sri Lanka reels from the Easter Sunday attacks, it must also confront its history of violent atrocities, secessionist sectarianism, ethnic populism and corrosive power politics.
It’s up to commissioners of the JSC to interview candidates for the judiciary in a manner that determines their suitability, but recent interviews for judges did not comply.
Part two of a series on political killings in South Africa details this week’s cross-examination of some of those accused of the murders of KwaZulu-Natal local politicians.
Part one of a series on political killings in South Africa delves into the breakdown of integrity at party branch level in KwaZulu-Natal, and the subsequent rise in corruption and murder.
The Proteas have flown close to the sun all summer. It’s to be hoped that the defeat by Sri Lanka triggers the changes needed for South Africa to reach the top of the World Test Series.
The Lions are in search of their lost bite to make up for the drop-off in their results since their roaring success in Sri Lanka against the Proteas.
Why and how has South Africa’s post-1994 parliament developed an attitude of such deference to the executive? The answer is discomfiting, and lies within the ruling party itself.
Zondo commission evidence supports Jacob Zuma’s claims that his nine years as president were not wasted, but not in a good way.
As more dirt is dished on the sleazy deals between Bosasa and government, Agrizzi reveals the rapacious heart of corruption.
Proteas coach, a former bowler himself, relished how South Africa’s fast four bullied Pakistan with speed, hostility and barrages of throat-tickling short balls.
Although the Proteas are 2-0 up courtesy of their four menacing fast bowlers, they still have some searching questions to answer about their fragile batting.
The team that shocks and entertains in equal measure is headed for our shores, but which Pakistan will show up? It seems they also don’t know.
After three decades of brutal civil war followed by an authoritarian, kleptocratic regime, the Indian Ocean island’s fragile detente is under threat again.
South Africa’s cricketing woes point to one fundamental problem but there’s no telling when this will be resolved.
It suited the apartheid narrative to label Verwoerd’s assassin as deranged rather than what he was, a freedom fighter who had slipped under the regime’s radar.