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SA Hatched Plot to Allow Al-Bashir’s Escape

SA Hatched Plot to Allow Al-Bashir’s Escape

Omar al-Bashir President Jacob Zuma and four Cabinet ministers hatched a plot to ensure Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s safe travel out of South Africa, it was reported on Friday. Al-Bashir slipped out of the country moments before judges in the High Court in Pretoria ordered he be arrested. The Sudanese leader was in Johannesburg to […]

Chaos in South Africa Parliament

Chaos in South Africa Parliament

When political parties across the spectrum negotiated a settlement for the country to transition from Apartheid to democracy, it was hailed across the world. Parties in Parliament also negotiated one of the most progressive Constitutions in the world. The ANC of today is a long way from the organisation it was back then, but surely […]

African Leaders have arrived in Johannesburg for the African Union assembly

African Leaders have arrived in Johannesburg for the African Union assembly

Heads of state and government leaders from the African Union’s 54 member states have arrived in Johannesburg ahead of the continental body’s assembly on Sunday and Monday. The dignitaries have been jetting into Waterkloof Air Force base and Lanseria Airport since Friday as formal proceedings kicked off in earnest on Saturday morning following a week […]

Jacob Zuma Seeks Extension in Corruption Case

Jacob Zuma Seeks Extension in Corruption Case

President Jacob Zuma asked for an extension to file court papers opposing a DA application to review a decision to drop the corruption charges against him, the DA said on Wednesday. “They were supposed to file papers today [Wednesday], but they asked for an extension to the 17th [of June],” DA MP James Selfe said. […]

8 Key Steps to Fix South Africa’s Migration Policy

8 Key Steps to Fix South Africa’s Migration Policy

Migration policy is challenging for all countries. The rise in anti-immigrant populist parties in Europe bears testimony to this, as do the repeated failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the US and Australia’s controversial “stop the boats” asylum seeker policy. Migration policy is difficult because it has to grapple with a politically volatile mixture […]

Seven Things the ANC Has Kept Mum On

Seven Things the ANC Has Kept Mum On

The ANC has kept mum on some of the biggest issues facing the country’s state institutions. Should the ruling party make its voice heard on these matters? Here are seven things the ANC, as a political party, has decided not to weigh in on: NPA The ruling party has kept mum over controversy surrounding NPA […]

South Africa’s new immigration laws will have negative impact on tourism

South Africa’s new immigration laws will have negative impact on tourism

Is it a bold move to fight child trafficking and protect South Africa’s borders? Or a paranoid gamble that will damage one of the country’s most important industries and add to soaring unemployment? South Africa has introduced new rules, requiring any child crossing its borders to be in possession of – or to have earlier […]

Zuma ‘will not have to repay’ money spent on residence

Zuma ‘will not have to repay’ money spent on residence

President Jacob Zuma will not have to repay state money spent to upgrade his private home in Nkandla, South Africa’s police minister has said. Nathi Nhleko said that the upgrades, including a pool costing almost 4m rand ($328,000; £215,000) were in fact security features. Last year an independent inquiry found the president had “unduly benefited” […]

Kenya, South Africa Enter Bilateral Negotiations

Kenya, South Africa Enter Bilateral Negotiations

Nairobi — Kenya and South Africa will in the next two weeks enter a Joint Commission of Cooperation (JCC) that will see the two countries take their relationship to the next level. President Uhuru Kenyatta and his counterpart President Jacob Zuma instructed the two foreign ministers to move with speed to ensure bilateral issues are […]

Zuma spends million hiring private jet

Zuma spends million hiring private jet

Pretoria – Millions of rands extra had to be spent to get President Jacob Zuma back to South Africa after an official visit to Moscow. By late on Tuesday, it was still not clear when he would land at Waterkloof air force base. The original itinerary had Zuma landing at Waterkloof just after 07:00. The […]

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