AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY Hawks to charge Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor with cyber fraud linked to R551,000 legal fees 4 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
ANALYSIS The VAT hike and the teetering GNU — a lose-lose situation for South Africans 6 min 3 By Yeshiel Panchia
CAUTIONARY TALES OP-ED Lessons from Zimbabwe’s GNU — how South Africa can avoid political complacency and missteps 8 min 2 By David Coltart
MUNICIPAL POLITICS Water woes, questions over governance loom before Matzikama Municipality by-election 5 min 1 By Suné Payne
ROAD TO 2024 ELECTIONS ‘We need to undergo a very rapid learning curve on coalitions,’ says ActionSA’s Beaumont 3 min 2 By Suné Payne
INNER-CITY DISASTER ‘Acting with speed’ – City of Joburg announces R196m to rebuild Lilian Ngoyi Street, six months later 4 min 6 By Michelle Banda
POLITICAL SCRUMDOWN MEC Anton Bredell turns up heat beneath Theewaterskloof officials in Rugby World Cup ‘official state visit’ probe 4 min 12 By Victoria O’Regan
POLITICAL SCRUMDOWN ‘Official state visit’ to watch Rugby World Cup final kicks up Theewaterskloof Municipality funding spat 6 min 63 By Victoria O’Regan
GOODBYE, PARTNER Patriotic Alliance breaks Knysna coalition with ANC, says it ‘won’t vote’ in council 3 min 13 By Suné Payne
ANALYSIS Together in electric dreams — ANC and EFF still looking for ways to work together 4 min 3 By Stephen Grootes
FARCICAL CHAIRS DA death knell sounds in Mogale City as ANC-EFF partnership juggernaut steams onwards 3 min 4 By Queenin Masuabi
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK The DA’s big-time, on-time congress felt refreshingly normal in disturbed times 6 min 31 By Stephen Grootes
LETTER FROM DM168 EDITOR Coalition clowns in council give Tshwane residents a big wake-up call 3 min 1 By Heather Robertson
MUNICIPAL MAYHEM Tshwane’s mayorship again in tailspin, following Makwarela’s ‘fake’ insolvency rehabilitation certificate – and now resignation 3 min 10 By Suné Payne
METRO TURBULENCE Tshwane gets a new mayor - Cope’s Makwarela - as seething multiparty coalition urgently seeks answers 4 min 7 By Suné Payne
ANALYSIS Why the DA’s one-man leadership race isn’t a good sign for the party 5 min 23 By Rebecca Davis
ANALYSIS A murky pond — SA’s coalition politics turns political minnows into big fish 5 min 5 By Stephen Grootes
POWER PLAY, PART ONE Prepare for a political roller coaster ride as parties jostle for positions in municipal coalitions 5 min 2 By Wayne Sussman
JOBURG COUNCIL CRISIS Mayor Mpho Phalatse heads to court to halt motion of no confidence against her 4 min 11 By Queenin Masuabi
