MUNICIPAL POLITICS DA and FF Plus make amends in George to form new coalition ahead of 2026 elections 5 min 0 By Suné Payne
ELECTORAL DILEMMA OP-ED Loophole of fielding the same candidate in multiple wards is ripe for legislative reform 6 min 0 By Jean Redpath
DEFAULT JUDGMENT Big-spending Steenhuisen faces scrutiny as DA fallout over axed Dion George continues 4 min 42 By Rebecca Davis
ANALYSIS Can SA maintain its climate influence without its environment minister at COP30? 8 min 1 By Kristin Engel
ANALYSIS Pressure mounts on SAPS and Ipid as Winde releases ombudsman report revealing alarming gang infiltration 6 min 2 By Caryn Dolley
POLITICALLY AWEH African voices take aim at Fifa as outrage grows over 2026 World Cup pricing and politics 2 min 0 By Politically Aweh
ANALYSIS US absence at SA’s G20 Summit threatens to upend Ramaphosa’s agenda 6 min 5 By Peter Fabricius
CABINET RESHUFFLE ‘I respect the party’s decision,’ says Dion George after axing 3 min 5 By Victoria O’Regan
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Environment Minister Dion George axed, despite ‘doing my job without fear, favour or prejudice’ 7 min 46 By Don Pinnock
PARLIAMENTARY HEARING ‘It’s like we’re powerless and watching criminals take over SA’ – NPA boss Shamila Batohi 6 min 13 By Caryn Dolley and Suné Payne
AGE OF CHAOS ANALYSIS John Hlophe’s failed mission — disgraced as a judge, thrown under the bus as a politician 4 min 7 By Marianne Thamm
INTERVIEW ‘Once an activist, always an activist’ — MP Dereleen James continues to fight against drugs and gangs 5 min 0 By Suné Payne
EDITORIAL What will it take? Three months of silence since Dior bag journalist bribe 4 min 13 By Jillian Green
MADLANGA COMMISSION Shadrack Sibiya caught in the middle of glory and scandal 8 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
ANALYSIS GNU lease of life? Ramaphosa might just have finally taken charge of SA’s governing coalition 5 min 3 By Stephen Grootes
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Mayor Gary van Niekerk gives readers (his version of) The Truth 5 min 1 By Riaan Marais
POLITICAL MALAISE OP-ED The ANC is dying, and the DA needs to ‘jettison liberalism’ to survive, says Moeletsi Mbeki 5 min 10 By Gabriel Makin
NOVEMBER BY-ELECTIONS ANC sees off spirited DA challenge in Mpumalanga, romps home in Limpopo to retain wards 5 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
