18+ hour, 50+ min ago   (100+ words) Financial Mail MK’s cash crisis exposes a hidden bargain in South African politics: taxpayers pay legislators’ salaries, parties take a cut - and the parties control the seat Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) has shown that it can mobilise millions…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (146+ words) Wandile Sihlobo and Daneel Rossouw discuss issues facing Western Cape farmers in the 2025/2026 season The Western Cape is one of South Africa’s most important agricultural regions. In the 2025/2026 season, the province experienced a range of challenges, including destructive floods that…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (160+ words) US fans are about to meet Malcolm Marx, among other rugby icons, as the sport’s administrators test the US market by staging the fourth Test in an NFL stadium Rugby is trending in South Africa. Obvs. Money is a perennial…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (176+ words) The strategic embrace of Agoa by the US is good news for Africa — but will it want South Africa to be part of the deal, and will tariff benefits remain? Only a year ago, the African Growth & Opportunity Act (Agoa)…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (159+ words) How a fortnight of involuntary leech therapy in a Cambodian rainforest taught an IT executive that the half of Cape Town, 2014, in the lounge at home. Kim and I were looking for the next trip when we found an advert…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (98+ words) Real Politics: DA dare not forget Zille’s warning Financial Mail The DA, in its haste to lock out the EFF and MK Party, must be sure not to be seen as the ANC’s lapdog — or the cost could be immense…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (153+ words) Financial Mail South Africa’s infrastructure may remain publicly owned even as the institutions that own it do less of the work. As private capital and expertise move deeper into electricity, rail and ports, the bigger change is where economic power…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (379+ words) Jansen tackles the education crisis head-on in his new book Worth the Fight. He exposes how out-of-touch policies sabotage working-class schools, making the case for why real change demands leadership and community effort Prof Jonathan Jansen is an independent thinker…...