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Ramaphosa’s 100 (working) days of social compacting have come and gone, but who’s counting?

Marianne Merten
22 May

New code of practice for Covid vaccination in the workplace set to come into effect

Tania Broughton
18 Mar

Exclusive: What Cyril Ramaphosa will say in his 2022 State of the Nation Address

Ferial Haffajee
09 Feb

Nedlac backs mandatory Covid-19 jabs in the workplace and public spaces 

Ray Mahlaka
07 Dec

President Ramaphosa expects update from vaccine mandate task team on Wednesday

Greg Nicolson
06 Dec

South Africa’s sugar tax should be scrapped, says SA Canegrowers Association

Andrew Russell
15 Nov

Sweet secrets: Civil society questions government’s ‘back-door agreement’ with industry to stall sugar tax hikes

Laura López González
01 Nov

‘A hatchet job’ – A response by the Institute for Economic Justice to Intellidex on the Basic Income Grant

Gilad Isaacs
07 Oct

Treasury unveils R38bn package to help financially battered households and businesses survive pandemic, orgy of violence

Ray Mahlaka
28 Jul

Nedlac business lobby optimistic on government bailout for short-term insurer Sasria

Ray Mahlaka
22 Jul

Government bailout for short-term insurer Sasria might be in the offing to settle post-looting claims

Ray Mahlaka
21 Jul

Business, labour and communities accuse government of dragging its feet on income relief after looting

Ray Mahlaka
20 Jul

Government offers scant assistance for struggling businesses and workers during new Level 4 lockdown

Ray Mahlaka
05 Jul

Acting health minister brings in military to help combat Gauteng third wave crisis

Zukiswa Pikoli
18 Jun

Ramaphosa needs to move from tinkering to reforming

Ray Hartley and Greg Mills
09 May 2021

Beacon of democracy: Building a new consensus in South Africa means imagining a new way of doing things

Marius Oosthuizen
26 Jan 2021

Eskom’s debt burden is sidestepped in a cascade of plans to revive South Africa’s economy

Ray Mahlaka
19 Oct 2020

Nedlac’s civil society leaders explain their role in the Covid-19 response 

Zukiswa Pikoli
12 Oct 2020

Love me tender: ANC Inc pushes back against clampdown on cadre corruption

Ferial Haffajee
05 Oct 2020

Nedlac’s framework agreement on Eskom and its implementation schedule are a masterclass in specifics

Marianne Merten
20 Sep 2020

The winding and long-winded road: SA’s political economy further fragments, and by-elections loom

Marianne Merten
18 Sep 2020