The shock and horror expressed by SA’s leaders at news of the murder of Marius “Vlam” van der Merwe — the security company owner who testified at the Madlanga inquiry into corruption in the justice cluster — on Friday illustrates just how out of touch our

On Wednesday last week, US President Donald Trump announced that SA would be barred from attending the next G20 summit in Miami in 2026. It is an extraordinary yet predictably irrational decision from the Trump administration.

If the minister can make such errors of judgment with just this one man, how many other blunders has he made? Mchunu is a national security risk, writes Malala

The ongoing Madlanga commission and parliament’s ad hoc committee hearings into police malfeasance continue to underline that SA’s original state capturers have multiplied into a bigger, more sophisticated and far more dangerous animal.

Twenty-three months after Jacob Zuma announced himself as a member of a new political formation called the MK Party, the jokes about and inside the entity don’t stop writing themselves.

People need to go to jail.

Watching two of our former police ministers, Bheki Cele and Senzo Mchunu, obfuscating and making light of consorting with criminals in parliament last week made one realise this is a country which has handed a grenade to a baby.

No matter how much South Africans may want to pretend that the SA Football Association (SAFA) president is a rogue, the truth is that he is a phenomenon that should neither surprise nor drive us to anger.

When most of us try to imagine where SA will be in 10 years, we think of a “clean break” happening in the next few years.

In the 1980s and 1990s, US president Donald Trump was relatively well known as a property developer and self-promoting partygoer.