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It’s a critical position in the now crumbling City of Johannesburg: a mayoral committee member for group corporate and shared services. It may sound a bit vague. But in this seat, you’re responsible for finance management, the city’s IT infrastructure, and supply chain processes. And it’s now occupied by one,…

A new report, put out by a research centre at Stellenbosch University, has now exposed a Poland-based news group called Visegrád24 for amplifying the views of alt-right commentators and their false narratives and mistruths about what’s happening in South Africa today. The report, authored by the university’s Centre for Information…

Why is the national dialogue not working? Was it a bad idea in the first place, or did it become a bad idea? Is it salvageable from here, and how? Mark Barnes and Tim Cohen have some ideas about what the National Dialogue should be discussing, but is not. And…

It seems like anyone can become South Africa’s foreign policy spokesperson these days. Just ask the chief of our defence force. South African National Defence Force chief General Rudzani Maphwanya jetted off to Tehran this week to meet with his Iranian counterpart and, quite astonishingly, spoke like the country’s foreign minister…

In this episode, Bruce Whitfield interviews Sim Tshabalala, Chief Executive of the Standard Bank Group, who has an ambitious to-do list for his remaining two years at the helm. Tshabalala says he will step down to make room for younger colleagues. Bruce talks markets with Zwelakhe Mnguni, Chief Investment Officer and…