The Gupta family played an amateurish game in trying to capture the state, political analyst Somadoda Fikeni said on Thursday. “The Guptas, it’s their amateurish, grotesque, in your face, corrosive approach. They became way too excited about their proximity
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Instead of announcing tax hikes in his budget speech on Wednesday, finance minister Pravin Gordhan should seek to raise revenue through asset sales, including the sale of “non-strategic liquid assets” such as Telkom, the Democratic Alliance has said
Government is not doing enough to create the environment necessary to grow South Africa’s information and communications technology sector and can learn from what other African countries, including Kenya and Rwanda, are doing in this regard
This week, telecommunications minister Siyabonga Cwele claimed there has been a “market failure” in the roll-out of broadband in South Africa. This, he said, is the reason the poor don’t have access
There will be load shedding even if it may cost the ANC votes. This is the expressed attitude of public enterprises minister Lynne Brown, who remains resolute about fixing the problems plaguing power utility Eskom for the long term, even if it means doing the unpopular
Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu was elated to receive his ID smartcard on Thursday morning. Home affairs minister Naledi Pandor handed the card to him in an envelope outside the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation building in Cape Town. Wearing warm
The first batch of smart ID cards will be issued to a list of prominent South Africans this month, home affairs minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. She announced that on Mandela Day, 18 July, the smart cards would be issued to individuals including president Jacob Zuma, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, archbishop
Last week Republicans seized on news that David Plouffe, a senior advisor in the White House, had accepted $100 000 from a subsidiary of MTN for two speeches he gave in Nigeria shortly before joining the White House staff in 2010. “Today’s story raises serious questions about [US President] Barack Obama’s senior
Former communications minister Roy Padayachie has passed away while on an official visit to Ethiopia. Padayachie, who was serving in President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet as minister of public service & administration, was also a former deputy communications minister under the late Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Ten years ago, world-renowned academic and activist Manuel Castells came to SA. It was not long after the publication of his seminal trilogy on the rise of the network society. From Silicon Valley to Yokohama, he had tracked the ways states can