Editorials

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...

We’re used to thinking of unfair tax avoidance – the legal kind that leaves governments and their citizens short-changed – as something...

Before the Constitutional Court made hers one of the most powerful offices in the land, public protector Thuli Madonsela was asked what action she...

Sixty years ago, more than 20 000 women of different backgrounds, social classes and races marched to the seat of the apartheid government to...

The ANC has mocked the Economic Freedom Fighters from the day the party emerged, as immature, opportunistic, loud and brash. This characterisation...

Some university vice-chancellors are fuming about a recommendation by the Council on Higher Education to the minister of higher education, Blade...

It’s easy to be distressed about the state of journalism in South Africa. Despite encouraging innovations and growth in other mediums, newspaper...

Two court cases – one beginning, one ending – of the past week offer valuable insights into the difficult relationship between the state and...

Unless there are some dramatic reversals after the Mail & Guardian goes to print, it seems clear that the ANC has lost Nelson Mandela Bay,...

The news cycle can be unrelentingly brutal and we can forgive readers for thinking South Africa has little good news to offer. But it is important to...

It’s very tempting to dance a jig over the humiliation of the SABC’s chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who was rapped on the knuckles...

At the International Aids conference in Durban this week, South Africa had much to celebrate. In stark contrast with the 2000 conference, which was...

Should civil servants who fight long, drawn-out court cases against private or civil society litigants be personally and financially penalised if...

In a pious moment, Thabo Mbeki, then president and engaged in “quiet diplomacy” in conflict-torn Zimbabwe, said it was up to the people of...