Adriaan Basson

While content creators mix fact and fiction for clicks, News24’s investigative journalism uncovered the R2-billion Tembisa Hospital scandal that cost Babita Deokaran her life. This is the difference between “content” and journalism, writes Adriaan Basson.

Political economist argues economic stagnation can be turned around by investing in skills, cutting the public service, ending BEE and investing in infrastructure.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana needs only to look at the daily headlines to know where he can wield the axe to make up his Budget shortfall, writes Adriaan Basson.

Auditing firm Ernst & Young has been appointed by the South African Rugby Union to look into the finer commission structure details of the failed Ackerley Sports Group bid for a stake in SA Rugby's commercial side.

More questions have emerged over the proximity of SA Rugby (SARU) CEO Rian Oberholzer to a failed equity bid of R1.4 billion that would have seen SARU selling off a significant stake in the commercial rights of the Springboks.

Let's take the best from the newspaper era and continue to build a sustainable future for our newsrooms in a digital world, writes Adriaan Basson.

The old guard is using Edwin Cameron's extraordinary attack on Wim de Villiers to claim back Stellenbosch University. And the voices of Wilgenhof's victims are completely lost, writes Adriaan Basson.

Democracy is in decline while AI technology is on the rise. A combination of the two could erode human freedoms and lead to a nightmarish future, writes Adriaan Basson.

The Springboks brand is a national treasure that belongs to all the people of South Africa. If the head honchos of SARU cannot be trusted with it, they should go, writes Adriaan Basson.

Former finance minister and Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has died.

The agreement that formalised South Africa’s new government of national unity (GNU) was on the brink of collapse less than an hour before the new Parliament met for the first time on Friday.

News24 analysed 10 voting stations in Gauteng to determine how the ANC lost its majority.

What happens if the ANC fails to perform in the election, and the EFF and Jacob Zuma's MKP decide to eject President Cyril Ramaphosa at the first sitting of Parliament? Adriaan Basson has a hypothesis.

In response to the Multi-Party Charter, which the DA originally launched as a Moonshot Pact, Zuma is apparently working in the background on establishing a formation in opposition to the MPC, writes Adriaan Basson.

Will the ANC do the right thing and cut state capture rogues from its lists, or follow Jacob Zuma’s example and ignore the crimes they are accused of? Adriaan Basson thinks the latter.

Adriaan Basson and Qaanitah Hunter in their latest book, ‘Who will rule South Africa?’ unpack the ANC’s promises of what constituted a better life for all into 40 measurable, or semi-measurable, aims or goals to provide a report card of the party over 30 years. Here is an excerpt of the book.

Adriaan Basson and Qaanitah Hunter in their latest book, 'Who will rule South Africa?' unpack the ANC’s promises of what constituted a better life for all into 40 measurable, or semi-measurable, aims or goals to provide a report card of the party over 30 years. Here is an excerpt of the book.

Adriaan Basson and Qaanitah Hunter in their latest book, 'Who will rule South Africa?' unpack the ANC’s promises of what constituted a better life for all into 40 measurable, or semi-measurable, aims or goals to provide a report card of the party over 30 years. Here is an excerpt of the book.

Cadre deployment itself is not the problem. The problem is when the policy is used to appoint incompetent and dodgy cadres, writes Adriaan Basson.

In the noise of all the shouting about the young cricketer David Teeger’s ill-advised statements about Israel, the reasonable middle is drowned out, writes Adriaan Basson.