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ArticleBlack Axe gang in SA sent packing

CYBERCRIME experts have warned that the extradition of six alleged Black Axe members from Cape Town to the United States is only the tip of the iceberg as cybercrime continues to grow in South Africa and across the globe. The six accused, all...

GENEVIEVE SERRA

ArticleRamaphosa to push trade at BRICS summit

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa landed in New Delhi, India, yesterday ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit, set to run at the Bharat Mandapam this weekend. And he has a mission – to focus on trade and investment. Arriving hot on the heels of Russian...

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ArticleFour things that could help end the epidemic

THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) fight against Ebola has reached a tipping point. It can accelerate what it has been doing to bring the latest outbreak under control, or risk allowing it to persist as the worst Ebola epidemic ever...

YAP BOUM and MARIE ROSELINE BELIZAIRE Boum is Professor in the faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Belizaire is a researcher at the School of Medicine, Universidad de Alcalá.

ArticleFactional infighting leads to series of own goals

WILLIAM SAUNDERSON-MEYER This is a much shortened version of the Jaundiced Eye column that appears on Politicsweb on Saturdays. Follow WSM on X @TheJaundicedEye

ArticleWhen legality parts ways with legitimacy

ZAINUNNISA “Cissie” Gool was born in 1897 in Cape Town. The daughter of a prominent politician, she joined the Communist Party in 1937 and served as an elected Cape Town City Council member. Cissie Gool House is the name given to the former...

ASHLEY GREEN-THOMPSON Green-Thompson runs an organisation that supports social justice action.

ArticleSA is stuck in a bog of low economic growth

“WE NEED much faster and bolder economic reform to turn South Africa’s economy around.” That is a truism very few leaders, economists, analysts and other commentators would quarrel with. And it has been repeated many times – for decades –...

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