STRATEGIC CONVERGENCE Ramaphosa, Hill-Lewis and Meyer provide a shift from cynicism to conditional hope 5 min 1 By J Brooks Spector
APRIL BY-ELECTIONS Easy ward win puts ANC on firm Eastern Cape footing in run-up to local government elections 2 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
TRC ROULETTE ANALYSIS How Jackie Selebi’s shadow loomed over TRC prosecutions and stalled justice 9 min 0 By Marianne Thamm
TRC Roulette Old spook habits: The Crime Intelligence head and the secret TRC recordings 6 min 2 By Marianne Thamm
GANGSTERISM ANALYSIS Western Cape army deployment — a plaster on gaping gang gunshot wounds 7 min 1 By Caryn Dolley
AMABHUNGANE ANALYSIS Who will save sugar industry giant Tongaat-Hulett? 18 min 2 By Sam Sole for amaBhungane
The Long Reckoning Dr Delay: Apartheid-era chemical weapons head Wouter Basson to face disciplinary hearing 6 min 0 By Marianne Thamm
PLANET CAPTURE ANALYSIS Iranian roulette — war in the time of portfolio diversification 9 min 10 By Richard Poplak
Bluster and boasts Trump marches up and down an Iranian hill and into a swamp 4 min 9 By J Brooks Spector
TWO POLICING PATHS Resentment or relief — beneath Masemola’s tenure turmoil and Mkhwanazi’s new contract 7 min 5 By Caryn Dolley
Without Fear, Favour or Prejudice Civil society launches bid to overhaul NPA Act 5 min 0 By Marianne Thamm
OBITUARY Farewell, Stephen Lewis, the man who shamed the world into seeing Africa's Aids catastrophe 8 min 0 By Herman Lategan
WOUNDS OF HISTORY The Judas goat — Eugene de Kock’s journey from Prime Evil to ailing witness 6 min 3 By Marianne Thamm
LEADERSHIP CHANGE DA Congress 2026 — can the party articulate a clear message about race? 5 min 4 By Stephen Grootes
MARCH BY-ELECTIONS ANC holds on to Dunoon ward with reduced support, but loses to PA in Oudtshoorn 6 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
SAPS IN CRISIS Factions shred police as Commissioner Masemola faces criminal charges tied to ‘Cat’ Matlala 7 min 3 By Caryn Dolley
‘CAT’ AND THE COPS Matlala’s ‘Ozempic girlfriend’ and ‘job terminator’ among 12 cops arrested in R360m tender scandal 6 min 2 By Caryn Dolley
STATE CAPTURE 2.O Cat Matlala’s plans for political control followed the State Capture playbook 5 min 1 By Ferial Haffajee
PARLIAMENTARY HEARING The Feroz Khan-sized hole in Parliament’s ad hoc committee inquiry 8 min 0 By Marianne Thamm