Current Affairs (podcast) Articles

The president in his capacity as ANC president spent a gruelling day in front of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo at the State Capture Commission where he was grilled on several ANC issues, such as cadre deployment. The ANC president admitted that party deployment,...

Greek and Turkish Cypriots have been preparing for new talks on reunifying their island. This time, the United Nations has asked them to figure out not how to share power, territory and resources, but whether they want a shared future at all. UN Secretary-General...

South Africans celebrate 27 years of freedom today – the exact number of years that former president Nelson Mandela spent in prison as punishment for his fight against the apartheid regime. Mandela was released on the 11th February in 1990 and the country held its...

All indications are that salary negotiations between government and the public servants for the 2021 year is not going to be an easy one. Trade unions representing public servants have tabled a wage proposal of more than 7%. Meanwhile, the government is doubling down...

Private sector has put its hand up to assist government, following the recent oversight visit to the Port of Durban by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula and Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan. One of the issues of concern that...

Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants to build a canal. Called a “crazy project” by none other than Erdoğan himself, the Kanal İstanbul would link the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara, and from there through the Dardanelles to the Mediterranean. Its main...

The fire that led to the closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital, is the fourth hospital fire in Gauteng in six years. At the same time, past inspections of Gauteng public hospitals have revealed widespread lack of compliance with the Occupational Health...