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Drawing on Henry Kissinger’s ‘strategy of will’, Mpumelelo Mkhabela draws a striking parallel between General de Gaulle’s defiance of Nazi collaboration in 1940 and Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s stand against the criminal capture of South Africa’s justice system.

IDAC head Andrea Johnson says she is facing possible prosecution over evidence that she forwarded the contents of an assault docket against Crime Intelligence Feroz Khan to him and will not answer any questions that incriminate her.

Former National Prosecuting Authority deputy head Anton du Plessis said that South Africa faces an existential crime and corruption crisis, but the Madlanga Commission is a source of hope.

A Cape Town teenager turned a personal experience into a national STEM movement, overcoming logistical challenges and doubts around his age to give South African pupils the opportunity to compete on the international stage at NASA.

JSE-listed PEP and Ackermans owner Pepkor is merging its Flash platform with Shop2Shop to entrench its position in the burgeoning informal market’s fintech sector.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his office does not have the authority to carry out the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called on US federal officials to step in.

The number of places where South Africans can apply for an ID more than doubled in around four months, as the Department of Home Affairs expands its partnership with the country’s biggest banks at lightning speed.

Johannesburg is in the grip of a widespread power outage as City Power works to manage nearly 4 000 open calls across all eight of its Service Delivery Centres.

Yaqeen Ahmed’s heroics at the Junior World Cup came as a surprise to many fellow South Africans, but not to former Stormers scrumhalf and Wynberg director of rugby Nic Groom.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has called a general meeting of the Public Investment Corporation at which the fate of the directors will be voted on.

A labour court judge found that while a lunchtime wedding rehearsal at work, involving placards, may seem “unusual”, the employer failed to prove that workers engaged in an illegal picket that led to a lost contract.

When an anti-corruption institution is accused of being drawn into the very factional battles it was established to rise above, its credibility inevitably suffers, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

The ANC is close to finalising its mayoral picks for South Africa’s three most contested Gauteng metros, with Reverend Frank Chikane, Aaron Maluleke and Ntombi Mekgwe emerging as frontrunners in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, respectively.

While deeply indebted and under enormous financial stress, South Africans are showing signs of “savings fatigue” and are also less enthusiastic than in previous years about hustling for more money.

Newly appointed Social Development Minister Dina Pule said on Tuesday she has taken note of the widespread criticism of her appointment and was willing to improve.

A former Musina high school teacher who ran an illegal immigration permit racket has been jailed for seven years.

NSFAS administrator Hlengani Mathebula’s newly appointed technical advisers and the entity’s consultants will earn R530 million by 2029 if its adjusted budget request for consultants is approved.

After six months of escalating tensions over governance, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and his team at National Treasury met with City of Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero on Tuesday, with both parties describing the meeting regarding the city’s fiscal position as “good” and “productive”.

Fine and cool weather is expected across much of the country, with morning fog patches in several provinces, according to the South African Weather Service.

Former Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa) board members are continuing with their legal battle to set aside findings of corruption made against them by the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.