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The regulations on Petroleum Exploration and Production promulgated in 2015, which makes  hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in South Africa possible could fly out of the window as early as tomorrow.

Today’s State of the Nation Address will be a critical indicator of the prospects of the optimism generated by Cyril Ramaphosa’s ascendancy being turned into real improvements in the lives of people. The key issue is what SONA will reveal about the policy direction that South Africa will take.

There’s a sense of optimism in South Africa now that Jacob Zuma has bowed under pressure to be recalled and eventually resigned in the late hours of Thursday night.

And so the moment arrives that so many South Africans have been praying for. 

With South Africa’s troubled president refusing to resign, the ANC’s parliamentary caucus has agreed to pass a motion of no confidence in him - as early as tomorrow.

There’s a few ways to f*ck up the value of the Rand, confidence in your own ruling party and South Africa in general, and this seems to be one of the best ways.

If reports are true that President Jacob Zuma has demanded a host of conditions as part of his exit package from the Union Building, which included “security and benefits”, then there is one party who is not apposed to it - the opposition DA; as long as he gets it...

South Africa has an opportunity to realise conditions “in which a reformed ruling party will introduce reforms to restore the rule of law and position South Africa as a competitive investment destination”.

Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology is officially on South African soil after the country launched its first start-up called Project UBU. The project rolled out its ITO (Initial Token Offering) of their UBX token with a pre-sale in September 2017. The public sale took off on 29 September 2017 and ran...

The newly appointed president of the ruling African National Congress Cyril Ramaphosa – who “cut his teeth” as a unionist in the mining industry – has a key role to play in replacing the present hostile environment towards mining growth with policies that welcome and encourage such a vital industry...

A comprehensive picture of South Africa’s taxpayers and tax revenues proves that the current government has leaned heavily on tax increases to plug the fiscal hole. The question now arises: Will ‘Ramaphosa effect’ save SA from taxing itself into prosperity?

South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) must stop their sh*t and start to help Cape Town in its darkest hours of water shortage, not try to cause more hardships.

Ordinary ANC voters back Cyril Ramaphosa and want more business-friendly policies. They are also moderate in their thinking, and anxious for policies that will grow jobs and stimulate economic growth.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) should as a matter of extreme urgency confirm whether or not Jacob Zuma will serve as president until 2019.

The Free State Provincial Government has committed itself to fully cooperate with the Hawks as they investigate matters relating to allegations of impropriety at Gupta owned Vrede Dairy Farm.

The South African Police Service says it has plans in place to secure the Western Cape province in the event of its water running  out. And the army could get involved to. 

 It has been eight weeks since the DA submitted a request to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) for an investigation into Naspers subsidiary Multichoice’s payments to ANN7 and the SABC, allegedly in exchange for influence of government policy in its favour.

Time to celebrate. The end of Zuma is nigh.

It’s a super move in the right direction as Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and the President-in-waiting has set his eyes firmly on the country’s State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) saying South Africa’s economy can only stabilise if there is stability at these critical entities.

As South Africa sees the end of the Zuma regime looming, it is good news that prosecuting authorities are starting to take action against perpetrators who have benefitted from State Capture in the country.

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has laid criminal complaints of inciting violence and various other crimes against the EFF leader Julius Malema and two of his foot soldiers, Floyd Shivambu and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.

The policy contradictions that are the predictable and inevitable consequences of the African National Congress’ recent conference resolution on pursuing land reform through a policy of Expropriation without Compensation provides a disturbing picture of the ruling party’s ambiguous strategy plans and inevitable failure.

The failure by the ANC's National Executive Council (NEC) and ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa, to recall Jacob Zuma only proves that the ANC is incapable of change, the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) says in a statement.

The proposal adopted by the African National Congress at its recent elective conference pledging expropriation without compensation to drive land reform has caused widespread confusion.

Home Affairs Director General Mkuseli Apleni has called on the public to ignore a hoax doing the rounds on social media, which claims that the green-barcoded ID will be discontinued come 31 March 2018.

The SABC’s finances are in such bad shape that it may well end up unable to meet its financial obligations and this will have a negative impact on people who have paid their television licence fees in advance, says Advocate Paul Hoffman SC, director of Accountability Now.

They just don't seem to learn - nog the pupils, not the teachers and not even the politicians. Of the 26 schools listed by the Department of Basic Education (DBE) as having achieved a matric pass rate of below 40% for the past 5 years, 13 were on the same...

Time to claim a kingdom and earn big bucks.

The quality of education in South Africa has hardly improved despite Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, lauding the Matric 2017 achievement, official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has warned in a statement.

The majority ruling of the Constitutional Court in favour of the lawfulness of the language policy of the University of the Free State (UFS), is regarded by AfriForum as indicative of the fact that during the negotiations leading up to the election of 1994, minorities had been misled into believing...

Out of 58 Matric subjects written last year, the marks of 16 were adjusted upwards to allow more pupils to pass.