Editorials

The government looks set to remove one of the last obstacles to a new nuclear build. As we report this week, the draft for South Africa’s updated...

The Democratic Alliance mayor of Johannesburg, Herman Mashaba, may have some good ideas about running the metropolis, but his recent

I’ve been building up to October this year. It would mark one year as editor and I had planned to pen a letter to the Mail & Guardian...

Pravin Gordhan is the Ubiquitous Man. He has been everywhere this week, even giving a serene and sensible mid-term budget speech while facing charges...

Are you angry and confused about what is going on in South African politics right now? Perhaps harbouring a secret suspicion that you are losing...

Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer strongly believes great schools do not exist without great leaders, emphasising the crucial role of...

About R35-billion lost in the value of bank stocks – that was one result of

Africa is struggling to decolonise itself – to remove the remains of a system of structural oppression that has left most of Africa underdeveloped...

As this newspaper has said on its front page, and as a new book (excerpted in this week’s paper) is titled, South Africa is a “protest nation”....

There have been many bad reactions to the convulsions on our university campuses in recent months, but the comments by ANC secretary general Gwede...

The ANC has spurts of introspection, usually soon after polls or in the run-up to elective conferences. Sometimes that leads to a hard-headed look at...

The looming nuclear deal that seems to be President Jacob Zuma’s biggest pet project (and will be South Africa’s biggest financial and...

The past week has been something of a rollercoaster ride for Southern Africa’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community....

The #OccupyLuthuliHouse group, which protested at the ANC’s headquarters earlier this week, consists of voices from within the ANC who wish to be...

For weeks now, media-consuming South Africans have been agog at the spectacle playing out before us — that of the president and his allies...