Sunday, 31 July 2016

Zuma arrives to ‘dabbing’ at Ellis Park

Party heavyweights have intensified the campaign around the country in a last ditch effort to convince voters to stand with the ANC


EFF focus on growing support base not winning municipalities

Economic Freedom Fighters supporters streamed in for the Tshela Thupa rally at Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane


ANC adamant that the municipalities it has, it will keep

African National Congress is adamant that it will hold onto power in all the municipalities currently under its control


Obama sends message to anti-Trump Republicans

Focusing on how Donald Trump does not represent Republican values reduces the psychological hurdle to crossing party lines, writes Megan McArdle


Fear of fraud is not the biggest hurdle for SA’s e-tailers

Online retail will reach a significant — but still tiny — milestone this year. The sector has a lot of work to do to attract more buyers, writes Kevin Tucker


Candidates ditch political parties to stand as independents

Disgruntled communities are also sidestepping established political parties and vowing to go it alone in groups such as the Forum 4 Service Delivery


Malema says he is ‘not suffering from uncontrollable ambition for power’

EFF leader Julius Malema said it was important to grow local economies and put land in the hands of black people


Mandela would vote for the DA says Herman Mashaba

The DA hopes to win many metros and municipalities at the August 3 local government elections

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EFF election candidate disqualified for inciting racial violence against whites

The EFF and its leadership have distanced itself from Mabotja’s comments


Brazils Lula faces trial for obstruction of justice

Lawyers representing Lula said the former president has never interfered or tried to interfere with investigations

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Saturday, 30 July 2016

ANC governs as if black lives do not matter, says Maimane

Political parties are wrapping up weeks of frantic campaigning, ahead of the polls


Six ways to beat procrastination

Tricks to try and make the benefits of taking action feel bigger


SABMiller board recommends AB InBev’s new $104 billion offer

The deal will be the biggest acquisition in the history of the beer industry


Zimbabwe veterans’ spokesman in court for insulting Mugabe

Veterans of Zimbabwe’s 1970s independence war, bitterly denounced the president, who faces growing signs of opposition


Turkey kills 35 militants after they try to storm base, say officials

Cities in the Kurdish southeast have been engulfed in the worst violence since the 1990s


Erdogan tells West ‘mind your own business’

Turkey has also targeted journalists seen as linked to Gulen, causing further international alarm


Brazil’s Lula faces trial for obstruction of justice

Lawyers representing Lula said the former president has never interfered or tried to interfere with investigations


Mandela would vote for the DA, says Herman Mashaba

The DA hopes to win many metros and municipalities at the August 3 local government elections


Thousands converge for the DA final rally

The ANC dismissed the figures, and the DA has adopted a cautious stance


EFF election candidate disqualified for inciting racial violence against whites

The EFF and its leadership have distanced itself from Mabotja’s comments


Friday, 29 July 2016

Come August 3, South Africans will pay almost R1 less for a litre of petrol

The drop in fuel prices is due mainly to a firmer rand against the dollar, while oil prices have remained stable


Goodman Gallery did not reject polemic painting by Iven Amali, it says

The owner of the painting, Kenny Kunene, says Amali told him ‘a white lady at the gallery’ told him it was disgusting and the gallery was not interested