There has been much talk, some of it dangerous, about how to stabilise municipal governments in the age of coalitions. Smaller parties, some of them with only one elected person, become kingmakers when no party has an overall majority and...
Beleaguered supermarket giant Pick n Pay will report its final results next week, and the numbers will probably make for scary reading. This week Pick n Pay sold down its holding in separately listed subsidiary retail business Boxer,...
In the FM of May 14-20, the subject of the Fox profile, Alexandra Abrahams, was incorrectly described as a former social development minister in the Western Cape. She did not hold that position. The FM regrets the error.
My stout defensive attributes — which, I confess, were not always on show when I trotted out as the Muir College fifth team flyhalf back in the day — let me down badly on the weekend. I took an unceremonious battering on both the tennis...
The MK Party got the third most votes in the 2024 general election, just months after its formation. Since then, its presence in South Africa’s political arena has been disruptive and chaotic. The latest actions by former president Jacob...
Were you to read the newspaper headlines, you’d imagine that South Africa’s government has, just recently, taken a chainsaw to the bureaucracy slowly throttling the business sector. “Parks Tau slashes red tape for merger transactions,”...
