🔒Pierre de Vos | AfriForum Trump-style lies: Turning a handful of laws into 144 ‘race laws’ www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

🔒Research by renowned economist Charles Feinstein "revealed how South Africa plummeted from relative prosperity in 1913 - when it was richer than Japan and South Korea - to economic catastrophe by 1994." www.news24.com/opinions/col...

🔒KZN Hawks head implicated in leaking SAPS info to benefit ‘brother’ Matlala – inquiry www.news24.com/southafrica/...

🔒HUNTED | How Ekurhuleni mayor tried to divert scrutiny from Mpho Mafole’s murder www.news24.com/investigatio...

SA and the upcoming season of political apathy www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

SA and the upcoming season of political apathy www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Joburg’s abandoned elders — inside the City’s failing old-age home system. The City of Joburg has lost operational and financial control of its 39 municipally owned old-age homes. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

The stance taken by the Trump administration had been influenced “by a sustained campaign of disinformation by groups and individuals” in SA and the US, "endangering and undermining South Africa’s national interests, destroying South African jobs". www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

🔒‘Cat’ Matlala faces eviction over unpaid rent www.businessday.co.za/news/law/202...

🔒NICOLE FRITZ: NDPP shortlist exposes a much deeper crisis. Apart from the alarming inclusion of former NDPP Menzi Simelane, one appointment cannot save the NPA. www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2025...

What Hurwitz objects to is that Holocaust education works. She is upset that the various social media vectors through which people hear directly from Palestinians drive accurate perceptions of the genocide. www.forever-wars.com/sarah-hurwit...

🔒Carol Paton | The ANC has many Brown Mogotsis who have rocked our politics www.news24.com/business/opi...

Six candidates shortlisted to replace Shamila Batohi as NPA head www.news24.com/southafrica/...

The DA’s Gordian knot: How the party’s internal feud could affect the elections www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Ward poll beatdown — ANC loses seats to MK, PA and independent candidate as it bleeds support www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

‘Cele lied’ — Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala alleges he made R500K payoff to former police minister www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

It all blew up, there was some legal hokey-cokey, they lost their jobs, she fled to LA, RFK became health secretary. He’s got bigger brainworms to fry; the other two are now “breaking their silence”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🔒Desperate in Donbas: He trusted ‘Auntie Dudu’, but his mom hasn’t heard from him in 3 months www.news24.com/southafrica/...

🔒😳High Court judge Portia Phahlane arrested for alleged corruption. Phahlane's arrest reportedly relates to her allegedly receiving kickbacks for favourable rulings in a succession battle involving the International Pentecost Holiness Church. www.news24.com/southafrica/...

The coup kids are in charge now. Across the continent’s new coup belt, young officers are stepping into power, casting themselves as guardians against corrupt civilian elites. africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...

THE HISTORY OF HIV | Explore four decades of the HIV story, from the first cases to breakthroughs in prevention, science, and South Africa’s fight against the virus: www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/11/25/a...

Performers who took the stage at this year’s Unmute ArtsAbility Arts Festival were applauded by audience members waving their hands in the air. Read groundup.org.za/article/lawn... by Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ashraf Hendricks

acob Zuma’s failed mercenary ambitions — from China to Russia, the road is littered with abandoned recruits www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Several Con Court judgments outstanding for more than a year now (Phala Phala case heard on 26 November 2024 also coming up for one year anniversary.) These delays are surely completely unacceptable.

Israeli regime is again breaking the ceasefire with no consequence. As a result, hospitals in Gaza are running out of essential supplies, with new waves of Israeli airstrikes killing more than 50 people and injuring more than 100 in recent days. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Can the World Move On Without the U.S.? G20 Leaders Gave It a Shot. With the United States boycotting the summit, other nations sought to strike new deals, and some took a tougher tone with President Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...

R22-million Limpopo sports complex stands unused. Makhuvha Sports Complex outside Thohoyandou has been left to ruin. groundup.org.za/article/r22-...

Interview: ‘I think my mum’s going to like it’: Alexander Skarsgård on his gay biker ‘dom-com’ Pillion. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

"Earlier this month Infantino instituted some preposterous Fifa peace prize that he’s going to inaugurate at the final draw for the 2026 World Cup in Washington next month, quite possibly so that the orange organ grinder can be the first winner of it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cape Town needs rent control. Here are six ways we could do it groundup.org.za/article/cape...

More than 50,000 soccer fans cheered on Ihab Abu Jazar’s Palestinian team in Bilbao. When Zaid Qunbar looked like he might equalise after 12 minutes the whole of this vast stadium cheered him on, roaring the opposition striker running towards their goal. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

All they ask is access to books: SA is failing the blind groundup.org.za/article/all-...

Jonny Steinberg | Like an athlete with tied feet: Why low voter turnover is slowing us down www.news24.com/opinions/col...

🔒JUSTICE MALALA | Revelations at the parliamentary sessions and Madlanga Commission are just the tip of the iceberg www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/2025...

🔒Pierre de Vos | On transgender rights: When ‘desperate people’ show more grace than respectable society www.news24.com/opinions/ana...

🔒‘It doesn’t have any effect on our probe’ – SIU on Mabuyane degree scandal court ruling www.news24.com/southafrica/...

“I can run, I feel free”: How government-funded hormones changed Lilita Singa. Gender-affirming healthcare can be life-saving, but access is limited groundup.org.za/article/i-ca...

🔒George Claassen: Ernst Roets falsely accused News24 of ignoring a farm attack that the outlet had actually reported on the day before his accusation was made. He refused to correct the lie. www.news24.com/opinions/col...

Shockingly draconian: Unknown judge in unknown court gags Open Secrets from saying anything about the court in which it was given, the judge, the parties to the case, or the content of the interdict. groundup.org.za/article/anon...

Voltaire: "Ek het nog net een gebed tot God gebid, en dit was kort: 'Here, maak my vyande belaglik.' En God het my gebed verhoor." www.binne-land.co.za/loop-gerus-d...

A brilliant book that is difficult to put down: The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays off. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

🔒Adriaan Basson | The collaborators who betrayed their country for Trump. "History will call out the names of those who could but chose not to call out Trump's barefaced lies about the persecution of Afrikaners to advance his white supremacist ideology." www.news24.com/opinions/col...

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians. IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and of using Palestinians as human shields. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

He did not even have to pretend that he was gravely ill... Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to be released from prison. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

When solidarity becomes spectacle. Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity. africasacountry.com/2025/11/when...

🔒Limpopo judge president sanctioned for presiding over ex-client’s cases www.news24.com/southafrica/...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

How the Rise of Fascism Impacted the 1938 FIFA World Cup lithub.com/how-the-rise...

A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t...

On language, power and the Tlaleng Mofokeng misjudgment by the Health Professions Council of SA www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...