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Makhudu Sefara is editor of the Sunday Times and TimesLIVE. He has previously also served as editor of the Sunday World, The Star and the Sunday Independent newspapers.

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the media at the recent basic education lekgotla. The perils of political communication will dog us all for much of this year, says the writer. File photo.

MAKHUDU SEFARA | Words that unwittingly betray our leaders’ flaws

Look below the surface of Ramaphosa’s rote platitudes for a disturbing message of political expedience, writes Makhudu Sefara.

US President Donald Trump

MAKHUDU SEFARA | SA’s G20 success leaves Trump on the sidelines

The challenge now is to ensure that, despite the US’s chairship next year, the agenda remains progressive, writes Makhudu Sefara

Public Service Commission chair Somadoda Fikeni addressed the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation's summit in the Drakensberg on the need to professionalise the public service.  File photo.

State capacity should be ‘number one investment’, says PSC chair Somadoda Fikeni

Much work still needed to be done to help politicians come to grips with the complexity of state administration and oversight, Fikeni said.

Dunstan Mlambo, judge president of the Gauteng Division of the high court, during interviews for SA's next chief justice.

The court of politics will decide who the next chief justice is

Favoured candidates Mlambo and Zondo come with baggage that is politically inconvenient for Ramaphosa

Fifa president Gianni Infantino believes that hosting the World Cup two years may in some way stop people trying to cross the Mediterranean in ill-equipped boats in search of a better life.

MAKHUDU SEFARA | Fifa boss’s remarks were wrong, but Africa must stop scoring own goals

Africans can throw shade and insults at bigots in the world, but we have a responsibility to ourselves

EFF leader Julius Malema says the party did not have sufficient numbers in the Free State's Metsimaholo municipality and an arrangement with the ANC was bound to fail. File photo.

It’s personal: ANC may not know it yet, but Malema is out for revenge

The ruling party keeps treating the EFF leader like any other leader of an opposition party. He is not

The National Party's Pik Botha and FW de Klerk greet Nelson Mandela at Codesa in 1992.

MAKHUDU SEFARA | FW’s apology is a choreographed insult to our intelligence

In the words of Fort Calata’s son: ‘De Klerk died peacefully … unlike those whose murders he ordered … ’

Several vehicles have been set alight in Durban Road, Korsten.

Walk the talk, Cele, or there’ll be another Gqeberha

The police minister talked tough after foreigners reduced Korsten to a mini Mogadishu, but it’s not good enough

Peter de Villiers says he takes allegations of racism very seriously.

MAKHUDU SEFARA | SA’s local elections: when spoilt for choice equates to slim pickings

Voters face the dilemma of choosing between the DA’s racism and the ANC’s corruption in municipal polls on November 1

Mamelodi residents in Tshwane were out in the streets when ANC deputy president David Mabuza hit the campaign trail on Thursday.

MAKHUDU SEFARA | SA voters know the times they are a-changin’, albeit slowly

The ANC’s chances of victory at the polls are good because it is not the only party facing challenges

Western Cape judge president John Hlophe. File photo.

Every man for himself: where’s Zuma to help you now, Hlophe?

Unfortunately for the fallen ones, the former president is too busy fighting his own battles to help them

Prosecutors say there are two people of interest in the matter who are still alive

MAKHUDU SEFARA | Stop just quoting Biko and be the man, all year round

Every year, on the anniversary of Steve Biko’s death, devotees pay lip service to his teachings instead of acting on them

The ANC has failed to pay its employees' salaries on time for three consecutive months.

How the mighty ANC has fallen. Once it led, now it follows

It either has stopped caring for its employees, or, worse, has no clue how to gnaw its way out of its troubles

Western Cape judge president John Hlophe during the Judicial Service Commission tribunal in 2013.

MAKHUDU SEFARA | Too often those in power, whom we trust, disappoint us

The ANC not paying its workers on time is an embarrassment, indicative of the self-serving times we live in

The government needs to spread the message to the youth on why it is important to get their Covid-19 vaccines.

Government has been slow on the uptake, hence South Africa’s vaccine hesitancy

Government’s strategists have been sleeping on the job, which explains why our vaccine rollout is slipping