EDITORIAL | We need proactive, effective leaders, not warm words after the fact

Joburg, our economic hub, deserves far better leadership. If the state can’t protect its own properties — how is it going to protect private property?

05 September 2023 - 20:41

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to the Marshalltown inferno that killed 76 people, left scores injured and homeless is disheartening not for a lack of sympathy but for eschewing accountability...

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