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Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

Legal showdown for land rights: New push to scrap the Expropriation Act

Katja Hamilton 28 May 2025

Labour Law

Court battle looms over Employment Equity Act amendments

Hugo Pienaar, Asma Cachalia, and Alex van Greuning 5 May 2025

Source: Reuters. Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) John Steenhuisen speaks to media in Cape Town, South Africa 14 June, 2024.

Taxation & Regulation

#Budget2025: Pushback over Fikile's D-Day announcement

Katja Hamilton 8 Apr 2025

Source: Reuters. SA Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana.

Budget Speech

#Budget2025: Fiscal steps get nod, VAT set to rise

3 Apr 2025

Finance

Budget2025 deadlock: Can Treasury guarantee the payment of social grants?

Katja Hamilton 2 Apr 2025

Finance

Resolution in sight for South Africa's budget crisis, says GNU

31 Mar 2025

Advertising

Controversy erupts over R28m spent on NHI marketing

24 Feb 2025

Budget Speech

Budget Speech clash: The elephant in the room

Katja Hamilton 19 Feb 2025

Economy

Countdown to #Sona2025: Will foreign-policy concerns overshadow domestic troubles?

Katja Hamilton 6 Feb 2025

Primary & Secondary Education

Explainer: BELA and its controversies

Paula Ensor 5 Feb 2025

African Penguins (photographed above at the Boulders penguin colony) are critically endangered. Photo: John Yeld/GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Legal delays threaten survival of African Penguins, say conservation groups

John Yeld 12 Dec 2024

ICT

Malatsi follows through on DA policy plans in withdrawal of SABC Bill

Lindsey Schutters 11 Nov 2024

Agriculture

Ramaphosa announces DA's Steenhuisen as Agriculture Minister

1 Jul 2024

Markets & Investment

South African rand rallies on hope DA and ANC can agree on cabinet posts

Tannur Anders 28 Jun 2024

Markets & Investment

Economists expect Sarb to cut the repo rate in November

Vuyani Ndaba 19 Jun 2024

Markets & Investment

ANC-DA deal: "Step toward economic renewal" - Lew Geffen Sotheby

18 Jun 2024

A man takes a photograph of the election results at the National Results Operation Centre of the IEC, which serves as an operational hub where results of the national election are displayed, in Midrand, South Africa, 2 June 2024. Reuters/Ihsaan Haffejee

Law Practice

#SAelections24: What happens next in South Africa after ANC loses majority?

Anait Miridzhanian and Joe Bavier 3 Jun 2024

Markets & Investment

Jittery markets struggle with South Africa coalition puzzle

3 Jun 2024

Environment & Natural Resources

When words aren’t enough: Parties falling short on climate action

Kemunto Ogutu, Issued by Roving Reporters 31 May 2024

#OrchidsandOnions

#OrchidsandOnions: DA crosses line in political persuasion

Brendan Seery 27 May 2024

Advertising

#SAelections2024: How much ads are costing political parties on Meta and Google

Karabo Ledwaba 8 May 2024

Education

#SAelections24: SA's political parties promise education reform, will they deliver?

Dr Corrin Varady 7 May 2024

Healthcare

Health Dept slammed for favouring Cuban doctors over local talent

16 Apr 2024

Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

Sustainable redistribution of land remains crucial to human rights in South Africa, as political parties jostle for voter support

Peter Setou 27 Mar 2024

Source: Capricorn FM Icasa's Draft National and Provincial Party Elections Broadcasts and Political Advertisements Amendment Regulations public hearings will take place on 8 December

Advertising

Icasa to host hearings on the Draft National & Provincial Party Elections Broadcasts & Political Ads

6 Dec 2023

Criminal Law

DA plans oversight visit to CPUT stabbing scene as shocking video emerges

Katja Hamilton 15 Nov 2023

Retailers

Outrage over Dis-Chem's moratorium on hiring, promoting White staff

17 Oct 2022

Economy

#SOPA2022: Premier Alan Winde pays lip service to gender-based violence

Katja Hamilton 17 Feb 2022

Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

Amendment to allow land expropriation without compensation fails to pass

Tim Cocks 8 Dec 2021

#OrchidsandOnions

#OrchidsandOnions: Going to extremes

Brendan Seery 13 Jul 2021

Markets & Investment

The pitfalls of the proposed pension fund amendments

14 May 2021

Advertising

#OrchidsandOnions: Comparative advantage

Brendan Seery 11 May 2021

PR & Communications

Mabine Seabe resigns as DA's director of communications

28 Jan 2020

Media

What's making news in SA?

6 Dec 2019

Media

What's making headlines in SA?

29 Nov 2019

Media

Mzansi's biggest news stories

18 Oct 2019

Media

The week's biggest news stories

4 Oct 2019

Social Media

What's making headlines in SA

16 Aug 2019

Media

What's making headlines in SA?

5 Jul 2019

Advertising

#OrchidsandOnions: Reddy tells it like it is

Brendan Seery 14 May 2019

Research

Election report: ANC, EFF lead the race after 24 hours

9 May 2019

Local communities have taken advantage of campaign trail visits by leaders such as President Cyril Ramaphosa | Epa/Kim Ludbrook

Radio & Audio

Local radio is plugging gaps in South Africa's mainstream media coverage

Franz Krüger 7 May 2019

None of South Africa’s political parties are offering middle class black people a home. shutterstock

Markets & Investment

South Africa's black middle class is battling to find a political home

David Everatt 3 May 2019

Advertising

DA's new campaign video is pastiche of a Childish Gambino music video

17 Apr 2019

Can South Africa keep the lights on? flickr/ Paul Saad

Energy

Is South Africa on the cusp of a major shift in energy policy?

Hartmut Winkler 5 Mar 2019

Advertising

#OrchidsandOnions: A cutting-edge campaign

Brendan Seery 22 Jan 2019

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