The repo rate will remain unchanged at 6.75% per annum, Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Thursday. “Given the heightened uncertainties in the economy, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) felt it would be appropriate to maintain the current monetary policy stance at this stage, and reassess the data and the balance of risks at […]

South African President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife Dr Nkosazna Dlamini Zuma became one of the country’s newest Members of Parliament (MP) at a swearing-in ceremony on Thursday… bringing her chances of becoming SA’s next president just a little closer. National Assembly Deputy Speaker Lechesa Tsenoli swore in the former African Union Commission Chairperson, as well as […]

Dr Hage Geingob, President of Namibia, has issued a wonderful welcoming statement to foreign investors on the back of President Donald Trump’s faux pas yesterday in New York, when he referred to Namibia as Nambia… not once, but twice. (Watch video below and see memes.) Making the most of the moment at the United Nations […]

American President Donald Trump created a new African country yesterday – Nambia. And he didn’t mention this non-existent land just once, but at least twice. Watch below. At first it was unclear if the US leader meant Namibia or Zambia when announcing that “Nambia’s health system is increasingly self-sufficient”. But a check of the White […]

As far as corporate accountability goes, the recent announcement that the CEO and seven senior executives at auditing and consultancy firm KMPG in South Africa have resigned is a welcome development. (See bullet point overview at bottom of page.) By resigning, the KPMG executives reinforced the principle of executive responsibility. This is a matter not […]

American President Donald Trump fired a few verbal missiles at North Korea, Iran and Venezuela on Tuesday, at his first United Nations General Assembly address in New York… but it was the guys from Zimbabwe who looked the most unimpressed! Watch video below. Trump said North Korea’s Kim Jong – whom he called ‘Rocket Man’ […]

Today – 12 September – is the day South Africans remember, celebrate and preserve the legacy of Black Consciousness Movement leader, intellectual and liberation struggle hero, Stephen Bantu Biko. Biko died 41 years ago in custody as a result of police brutality on 12 September 1977. The former medical student’s words of wisdom still inspire […]

President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife Dr Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma appears to be moving another step closer to becoming South Africa’s next President. It has been revealed on Friday evening that Dr Dlamini-Zuma will be sworn in as an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament next week. According to local reports, she will fill one of […]

Thanks in part to a tireless effort from the Democratic Alliance (DA), as well as the persistence of vocal South Africans, an unrelenting SA Twitter vs Bell Pottinger, and protesting expats in London… PR firm Bell Pottinger has been expelled, with immediate effect, from UK PR regulatory body, the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA). Only […]

Former Pretoria High School boy, and current world renowned billionaire businessman and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk has warned that the competition between countries for artificial intelligence (AI) superiority could be the cause of a third world war. The South African expat tweeted “it begins” early this morning, along with an article in […]

The CEO of Bell Pottinger, James Henderson, stepped down from his role as head of the well known UK PR firm over the weekend, ahead of today’s imminent publishing of an investigation into the firm by Herbert Smith Freehills. Last month another four Bell Pottinger employees were dismissed or suspended. Herbert Smith Freehills were appointed […]

In response to questions put to him by the Sunday Independent – which have been circulating on social media since Friday, 1 September 2017, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has made the following statement: “It has come to my attention, through questions that were sent to me by the editor of a Sunday newspaper, that a […]

President Jacob Zuma says he has announced his intention to establish a commission of inquiry into state capture. The President said this when he fielded oral questions at the National Assembly on Thursday. He was responding to a question from DA leader Mmusi Maimane. “I wish to make it categorically clear that I have never […]

Thursday’s Question and Answer session with President Jacob Zuma in Parliament, in Cape Town, was filled with entertainment today from the usual suspects – Zuma’s reluctance to answer simple questions to the EFF walking out – but one of the more unexpected moments was when the sign language interpreter abruptly got up and left for […]

A motion calling for early elections in South Africa will be debated in the House of Parliament on Tuesday 5 September, it has been announced this morning by the National Assembly Programme Committee. The opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has called for early elections as provided for in the Constitution (Section 50(1)) following the […]

Hawks, the special investigative unit of the South African Police Services (SAPS), today confirmed they are investigating the prominent Gupta Family, who have been at the centre of allegations of state capture in South Africa, for allegedly using public funds to pay for a lavish family wedding at Sun City in 2013. In a press statement, […]

What is it about former US President Barack Obama’s record-setting tweet – it has already surpassed 1.6 million retweets and 4.5 million “likes” – that has captured the imagination of the world? In the tweet Obama quoted Nelson Mandela: No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his […]

South Africa’s opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), says it has received confirmation that their complaint against Bell Pottinger has been upheld, and that the ruling will most likely be on 4 September. This means that the UK’s trade PR trade body – PRCA (Public Relations & Communications Association) – agrees that “Bell Pottinger did […]

Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, is accused of assaulting a young woman while on a visit to South Africa. A week after the incident in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg’s upmarket central business district, a South African government minister announced that she had been granted diplomatic immunity. She has subsequently […]

The Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Mduduzi Manana, has resigned and apologised to South Africans, particularly women, following the recent incident of assault he was in involved in, in which he beat up a woman at a club in Gauteng, which is before the court. The former Deputy Minister handed his resignation and […]

The civil rights watchdog AfriForum and Advocate Gerrie Nel, Head of the organisation’s Private Prosecuting Unit, today announced at a media conference that they would support Gabriella Engels to “see that justice prevails” in the assault charge that Engels has brought against Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe. The support entails, amongst other things, that Adv. […]

JOHANNESBURG – Despite claims from sources in Zimbabwe yesterday that the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe had returned to Zimbabwe… the South African Ministry of Police has Wednesday issued a statement confirming that she actually is still in South Africa. According to the statement, the ‘suspect’ was due to hand herself in yesterday but kept changing […]

Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, has returned to Zimbabwe according to an Aljazeera report… following her alleged assault of a 20-year-old South African woman at a hotel in Sandton on Sunday. There was conflicting information on Tuesday afternoon with some media in South Africa reporting that Mugabe had handed herself in and was in court… […]

South Africa celebrated Women’s Day on August 9th to mark the day in 1956 when 20 000 women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to insist on their rights… writes AMANDA GOUWS, Stellenbosch University South Africa celebrates Women’s Day on August 9th to mark the day in 1956 when 20 000 women marched to the […]

The DA (Democratic Alliance) has challenged the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) to support its motion to dissolve Parliament and “show South Africa that they too are committed” to a “new beginning” for the country. DA National Spokesperson Phumzile van Damme said the DA’s motion to dissolve Parliament seeks to put power back in the hands of […]