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Effective planning in South Africa’s metros must incorporate the everyday and often-changing needs, desires and decisions of ordinary people.

The financial models of South African Aircraze (SAA) are unsustainable and ineffective and the national carrier should be forced, by law, to be placed under business rescue to be managed by duly qualified people.

South Africa’s ballooning public service, whose wage bill has outstripped not just inflation but wage increases in the private sector, has become a huge political and economic problem.

There’s ways to blow money - and then there’s South African Aircraze.

New President Cyril Ramaphosa described Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as “an abiding symbol of the desire for freedom”.

The attacker(s) of and elderly man “hould have poked out his eyes and tongue so that the last people he would ever see, were his killers and he could go to his grave with the nightmare”, a Defence Force major posted on Facebook. Now AfriForum wants to know why the...

The newly appointed Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform, Maite Nkoane-Mashabane, sys she will expropriate land even before the parliamentary process has been completed. Nkoane-Mashabane said at the recent Land Summit that she had already identified a piece of property for such purposes.

Jacob has left the building but he is still causing kak.

The perception of corruption in South Africa has deepened over the past two decades, and why are we not surprised?

The South African Government’s Land Audit, which is widely quoted as a central reference point in the debate around land reform, is “a deeply questionable source of information”, says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in its latest analyses of the country’s land ownership.

Australia's ball tampering exploits against South Africa is not only seeing South Africans getting upset, even the Australian sponsors of Cricket Australia are hot under the collar with one sponsor - Specsavers - saying “they cannot turn a blind eye” to what has happened.

Few things in South Africa are more visible and yet more secretive than the country’s VIP Protection Services. They are seen everywhere, but who they are, how they operate, how much they cost and what outcomes they are responsible for, generally remain a mystery.

Can we expect to see another Great Trek as South African farmers flock to Australia? The great island Down Under says it is ready to welcome South African farmers with open arms.

This year has already witnessed 109 farm attacks and 15 farm murders in South Africa and now the Aussies are saying we should be banned from international sport because of it.

Those close gat-gabbas of Jacob Zuma, the Gupta brothers, came up with a cunning plan to score  almost R1 billion a year through South African government health contracts. They wanted to use the money to build a private health centre in Dubai.

South African Aircraze (SAA) will cut or reduce loss-making routes and transfer unneeded aircraft to the more profitable low-cost carrier, Mango Airlines, as it embarks on a three-year recovery plan.

The chickens are coming home to roost and now former SA president Jacob Zuma will get his day in court - eventually. But it could tax payers a lot.

The urgent need for investment, economic growth and policy reforms, especially in education, is what South Africa needs to reduce its high unemployment figures.

Despite South Africa making considerable progress against the scourge of HIV/AIDS, with a marked decline in the number of new infections since 2009 – but an intensified campaign is needed to sustain the gains.

First it was polony. Now it’s chicken. South Africa's poultry producers association says it was concerned that the country was accepting imports of untested mechanically deboned meat (MDM) into the country even as its neighbours blocked its own processed meat products over a listeriosis outbreak.

Farm murders and illegal land occupation is top of the agenda if the new Minister of Police, Genl. Bheki Cele, agrees to a meeting with AfriForum.

The South African government’s commitment to expropriation without compensation offers the international community little reason to be optimistic about investing in the country.

South Africa’s Police Service has allegedly been promoting former MK freedom fighters illegally but now these “racist” actions will need to be explained in court.

Profoundly worrying questions arise from the raid by the Hawks' Crimes Against The State Unit on the Riebeek Kasteel home of writer and investigative journalist Jacques Pauw, coming as it did just 48 hours after several compromised individuals regained power in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration.

There was no political interference in the timing of their arrests over the state of capture investigations, the acting head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) is saying.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced changes to the National Executive and the appointment of David Mabuza as the new Deputy President of the Republic.

Any effort in the National Assembly to begin the process of introducing a regime of expropriation without compensation represents a profound danger for South Africa’s economic future.

At last the chickens are coming home to roost.

In the absence of profound changes in economic policy, President Cyril Ramaphosa will fail to translate his political success into an economic reformation.

An increase in value-added tax (VAT), fuel levy and a higher estate duty tax are just some of the things South Africans will be faced with this year after Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s Budget Speech.