Senior lecturer at the Wits School of Governance, Dr Ivor Sarakinsky explains why the court has been drawn into the case.

The African National Congress says Thursday’s court judgment has disregarded the separation of powers between the judiciary, executive and legislative arms of government.

Former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says while government has room to experiment with some policy choices, sound judgment should be applied.

Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba's spokesperson Tony Taverna-Turisan has accused former Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza of discouraging Hawks members from investigating corruption allegations laid by Mashaba against some city officials.

Taverna-Turisan has however refused to name officials involved in the alleged corruption – saying he doesn’t want to compromise the officials.

University of the Free State’s Professor, Prof Louise van den Berg says one in four children are already overweight and obese by the time they are six-years-old.

Contrary to former energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson statement that the department did not sell 10 million barrels of oil, the new Minister of Energy Mmamoloko Kubayi says it was sold.

Little foot was an Australopithecus individual, who lived more than two million years ago in Southern Africa. Australopithecus is an extinct group of the human species.

Wits University Palaeontologist, Professor Francis Thackeray stands by original findings regarding dating Australopithecus fossil, Little Foot.

Perhaps a shock element in the title race is the newly-assembled club like Cape Town City, with a coach like Eric Tinkler with a not-so-long background in coaching, making it into this contention ahead of big clubs like Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs. Is there a story behind this?