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Bad politics is to blame for driving big companies like General Motors (GM) out of South Africa.

A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is manipulated by a real human. Having been appointed by South African President Jacob Zuma as new Finance Minister of the country recently, it has long been suspected that Malusi Gigaba might be one.

Reports that government employee pension money could be used to blow new life into a dying South African Airways has prompted trade Union Solidarity to take up the fight.

Up to 14,000 South African government employees are directors of companies delivering services to state departments. And thats not all - there are 12,000 dead people also tendering for government contracts.

Thanks to a resumption of solid agricultural production as the drought in the country abates, South Africa’s rate of real GDP growth is projected to be at least 1% during the rest of 2017. It remains unlikely that this will prevent the further increase of unemployment.

The Zuma government might just be after private security firms - to either take control of them or get rid of them.

As Mad 'Bob' Robert Mugabe gives the African Union Foundation (AUF), the institution charged with promoting domestic resource mobilisation for African development, 300 cows, Zimbabwean banks my soon have to take in livestock as collateral for bank loans.

South Africa will spend an additional R393 million to complete MeerKat – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) demonstrator project, which will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world.

The South African government’s reasons for introducing strict travel rules - like an unabridged birth certificate (UBC) to travel in and out of the country - is noting more than a smoke screen.

South Africa’s national broadcaster, better better known as the South African Broadcorping Castration (SABC), believes people are watching their content on smartphones and should pay for a TV licence every time they buy one.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Switzerland received an official complaint about South Africa’s affirmative action and black economic empowerment policies.

It’s a full on revolution as South Africa’s tourism private sector has turned their backs on their own tourism minister to support Seychelles’ Alain St. Ange for Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). Both were front runners for the job as voting commence in Spain this...

The South African Broadcorping Castration (SABC) is so broke it’s sports commentators need to watch games on the TV.

The brain drain from South Africa is hurting the country, especially with regards to doctors, says South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

More and more stink rich South Africans are ready to jump ship and make their way to Trump country.

An online potion to prevent SABC soapie Isidingo broadcasting ‘“racist” scenes has attracted the support of - wait for it - 13 people. 

The legal battle against racial quotas in South African sport began today.

Farm murders for the 2016 to 2017 financial year stand at “a disturbing” 74 with a total of 357 attacks countrywide say the AfriForum Research Institute (ANI).

A legal strategy to prevent quotas in South African sport will be revealed soon. It is believed the strategy will attempt to prove that race quotas - not only in sport - are unconstitutional and unlawful.

Despite just over 50% of Pommies doing their best to isolate themselves from trade with Europe by voting for Brexit, the South African government is stil keen to do business with the people from the Queen’s muddy patch. South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies says his Zuma lead...

If you wanted to get out of South Africa to find a safe haven in Australia or New Zealand it might be too late.

President Jacob Zuma is an inveterate liar, says Paul Hoffman SC, a director of Accountability Now and the author of “Confronting the Corrupt” in an article posted on http://accountabilitynow.org.za. It's simply a must read and shows why the smallest of the President's lies might just be the one that unseats him... 

It’s finally time for the South African Broadcorping Castration (SABC) to rid themselves of their self-styled Fuhrer and kick Hlaudi Motsoeneng as far they see fit. And this time they have a reason to do so.

Afrikaans singer Laurika Rauch sang about a farmer who commits suicide because of drought in her gripping song “Mannetjies Roux”. Now reality has caught op with this. A drought-driven economic crunch in South Africa is said to be blamed for a spike in farmer suicides in the country.

The failure of South Africa’s education system and healthcare facilities are damaging the country’s competitiveness as an investment destination in a globalised world.

South Africa’s moratorium on the domestic trade in rhino horn, which has been in place since 2009 is something of the past - and so too could rhinos be, says conservationists.

There are two possible explanations for some of the alleged “irrational” decisions taken by the South African government under the leadership of Jacob Zuma in the past week: 1. The decisions were not irrational, but part of a calculated power-play designed to further entrench the Zuma-aligned faction of the African...

It's time to rid South Africa of President Jacob Zuma - but will the majority of ANC MP's support the opposition?

Whether South Africa’s largest headache - the person they call Number One (we call him “The Zumster”) stays or goes, the most pressing challenge in the country remains - how do we empower the disadvantaged?

The decision by S&P Global Ratings to cut South Africa’s long term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to ‘junk status’ can risk triggering a series of economic setbacks that will affect the living standards of all South Africans.

In yet another kick in the South African government’s persistent affirmative action plans, trade union Solidarity received a favourable ruling in the Labour Court - with costs - on behalf of one of its members in the South African Police Service (SAPS).