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Inside UAE’s ‘Secret South African Arms Pipeline’ 

LOOPHOLE: International watchdog entity unmasks a major arms-trade wheeling and dealing – in which armoured vehicles sold across Africa under a “Made in Emirates” badge are in fact designed in SA and assembled...

Municipalities buckle under debt, skills shortage burden

DILEMMA: For too long, municipalities have focused on new projects while neglecting critical assets… By  Monk Nkomo Skills shortages and financial distress undermined  the performance of  many...

‘South Africans have lost trust in criminal justice system, parliament’

DECLINE: Declining trust and support for the rule of law undermines the legitimacy of government, says academics Amanda Gouws and Joseph Kupolusi… By Amanda Gouws and Joseph Kupolusi For democracies to...

TRUMP’S WAR ON SOUTH AFRICA BETRAYS SINISTER THREAT

TENSIONS: Trump’s attacks on South Africa expose an old Western reflex to punish African sovereignty By Tafi Mhaka When US President Donald Trump declared that South Africa “should not even be” in the G20 and...

Travel to Gqeberha: A Refreshing Coastal Escape

BREEZY: Gqeberha is a beautiful, tidy city with a relaxed rhythm with uncrowded beaches, as lifestyle writer Priscilla Malinga discovered during her recent visit… By Priscilla Malinga Gqeberha, formerly known...

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COMMITMENT:  Inside the business indaba in Johannesburg and ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba’s Call for a New Era of Black Entrepreneurship echoed with an air of conviction… By Lihle Candice Malinga Africa’s visionaries...

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True Cost Of Mobility

STUDY: South Africans spend between 30 and 60  minutes travelling one way to work By WSAM Reporter Every day, millions of South Africans make their way to work by car, taxi, train, e-hailing or on foot. Most of us track...

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