AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY ANALYSIS The return of Waterkloof Four’s ‘God's child’, and the gravity of violence, privilege and media 4 min 0 By Rebecca Davis
CREDIBILITY CHASM OP-ED Eskom’s ‘stayed’ court case shows double game duplicity on electricity trading 5 min 0 By Chris Yelland
TRANSPARENCY TEST President’s NDPP curveball exposes risky power and fuels appointment transparency reforms 5 min 3 By Stephen Grootes
LABOUR POWER Can the workers of Mzansi find common cause, and what would it mean for SA’s politics? 6 min 2 By Stephen Grootes
NDPP SELECTION Legal fireworks ahead as old tensions resurface between lawyer Barnabas Xulu and Hermione Cronje 5 min 1 By Marianne Thamm
ANALYSIS Why the latest tennis ‘Battle of the Sexes’ felt pointless — and politically loaded 5 min 5 By Rebecca Davis
ANGRY AUTOPILOT Fast-talking Trump rages and rants, but the big speech is thick on claims and thin on policy 6 min 5 By J Brooks Spector
DECEMBER BY-ELECTIONS Emphatic IFP win in rural KZN caps good week for party in wake of legislature chaos 4 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
INFLATION TAMER Stephen Grootes: My person of the year is Lesetja Kganyago 4 min 1 By Stephen Grootes
POLICING IN CRISIS From money-loving Matlala to penny-pinching Cele — snapshots from SA’s parallel police capture hearings 6 min 0 By Caryn Dolley
ANALYSIS Hermione Cronje, the NDPP candidate who could reform the NPA — but don’t bet on her cracking the nod 8 min 7 By Rebecca Davis
DECEMBER BY-ELECTIONS ANC retains Ekurhuleni, Western Cape wards, but sheds support to Patriotic Alliance, ActionSA 6 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
ANALYSIS Independent Media wants Google bucks without Press Council oversight 4 min 2 By Rebecca Davis
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Trump’s National Security Strategy insults Europe and largely neglects Africa 8 min 1 By Peter Fabricius
NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION Kingmakers, knives and numbers: The vote that could hand KZN to Zuma’s MK party 6 min 10 By Greg Ardé
