Heather Robertson

DM168 is the only weekly newspaper that has shown a year-on-year increase and we are all deeply grateful to each of you who go out and buy our paper or read the e-edition. Thank you!

A whirlwind week that felt like an end of an era with the passing of former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan

Without cost-cutting or rightsizing we face bigger dangers further down the line – debt defaulting, bankruptcy or insolvency, jeopardising the whole organisation, its purpose and its future.

The Tshwane coup smacks of power for the sake of power, and of being a bit upset at the discovery and throttling of the food chain after leaks were found by the Auditor-General and acted on by the municipality.

I'm intrigued about why the government, having pushed through the NHI Act, would not in the interim do something, anything, to control skyrocketing medical costs after it was suggested five years ago by the Competition Commission.

Our youth jobs crisis is not due to lack of skill, potential, sheer grit and hard work. It's due to a lack of investment in their potential.

It's time for the world to intervene not by taking sides, but by focussing on reconciling both parties' objectives: a ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the unjust occupation, self-determination for Palestinians, and safety and security for Israelis.

Read all the facts and decide whether or not Independent Media was treated unfairly by the Press Council of South Africa.

The writing has been on the wall for us in the newspaper business since 2007, when Apple’s mad genius founder Steve Jobs made the smartphone sexy.

Does our President not know that his pandering to the whims of his dysfunctional party and its errant members, is contributing to the very economic stagnation and low growth that palace coups are made of?