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The Competition Commission’s work goes beyond the analysis of mergers and acquisitions and the review of complaints such as excessive pricing and collusive behaviour.

Dr Martin Luther King Jr said: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Social media has always had the good and the bad sides to it. This week we were exposed to perhaps the extreme bad side of social media after reports on the death of SA’s ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa.

SA sits with a ticking time bomb that needs everyone’s attention, from the Union Buildings to the boardrooms of big business across the country.

The Miss SA organisation has announced that Basetsana Kumalo and Peggy-Sue Khumalo will spearhead a new transformative era as co-chairs.

The scale of the disregard for the law by the Gauteng department of health officials is immeasurable and was the glue that held all syndicates operating at Tembisa Hospital together.

The name of Zodwa Khoza, the late daughter of Orlando Pirates boss Irvin Khoza, is alive and active in the townships of Gauteng, and the Zodwa Khoza Foundation (ZKF) will host a summit on poverty and unemployment alleviation at its Diepkloof, Soweto, premises on October 16.

Bafana Bafana are no longer in control of their World Cup destiny after Fifa finally acted on the Teboho Mokoena saga, deducting three points, which dropped the team into second place in their group behind Benin.

The SIU’s investigation at the Tembisa Hospital has revealed a massive scale of looting of public funds in what the unit’s head, Andy Mothibi, has described as an “egregious betrayal of the nation's trust”.

Those who study the history of our continent much closer than I do say no liberation movement, no matter how terrible its track record, has ever surrendered power back to the coloniser.

All eyes will be on Lt -Gen Dumisani Khumalo, the head of SAPS crime intelligence, as he takes the stand today at the Madlanga commission.

This year marks 25 years of the Competition Commission’s much sought-after cadet training programme. With applications now open, top-achieving graduates seeking to deepen their expertise in competition regulation, competition policy, and competition economics are invited to apply.

SA’s leadership crisis runs deeper than the usual headlines suggest. All too long, noisy focus has been driven by our fears and fury, and less by hope and vision.

But fixing Joburg will not be easy. It is a city that has been allowed to deteriorate for such a long time that it requires a serious overhaul.

Consent is a cornerstone of any sexual relationship; between married couples, lovers, friends with benefits as well as sex workers and their paying clients. It needs to be enthusiastic, not forced, and the words must match the body language.