Zuma, are you sure we have enough inquiries on the go?
Verashni PillaySetting up a biased task team, investigation or inquiry does not equate with accountability.
Israel deploying the 'Gaza doctrine' to terrorize civilians
Raji SouraniIsrael's use of disproportionate force to cause civilian terror in Gaza contravenes the laws governing armed conflict, writes Raji Sourani.
Letters to the editor: July 18 to 24 2014
LettersM&G readers speak up: The SABC spits in our face, Modise's farm scandal and Elvis wasn't the first.
Choosing when I want to die
Jo BeechamDesmond Tutu and others have commented recently on the right to euthanasia. What about self-euthanasia?
Bela-Bela's unlikely golfers are found in unexpected places
Johnny MasilelaThe golf course of Bela Bela is popular with previously disadvantaged players.
Mantashe on 'ANC backstabbers and the lying media'
Gwede MantasheWe should remain alert to efforts to weaken the ANC, even from those purporting to support it.
Future strikes obstruct Numsa deal
Phillip De WetOn money the union and the employers virtually agree. But on matters that could define future strikes the differences appear nearly unbridgeable.
Blind to colour - or just blind?
Achille MbembeThe ANC has let the most reactionary sectors of white society off the hook while chasing away those progressive and antiracist whites.
Apply international law and decide if Israel is guilty
Mia SwartThe latest outburst of aggression in the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine inflames emotions everywhere.
Editorial: Rescue Gaza from blinkered lunacy
EditorialIsrael's right to guarantee the safety of its citizens cannot justify its grossly disproportionate response to Hamas rockets.
Assault on democracy unites a nation
Tawana KupeUniversal outrage at the Motsoeneng saga should force this gross injustice to be amended.
Lack of communication is an injustice in land restitution
Bernadette AtuaheneBy signing the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Bill, President Jacob Zuma recently initiated round two of SA’s programme of land restitution.
Gordimer's legacy is our honour
EditorialThe past might be another country, but for more than 90 years Gordimer lived in South Africa – and wrote of it with piercing insight.
Grazia 'slut' tweet gets shamed
M&G ReportersWhere was the missing link that allowed for the publishing of the contentious Grazia tweet? Some of our colleagues at the M&G weighed in.
EFF dress code challenges our failed reconciliation
Bennie BunseeDespite talk of reconciliation and non-racialism in SA, the colonial status quo remains in our country.
Khaya Dlanga: Qualifications are not the be-all and end-all to employment
Khaya DlangaThey are pieces of paper; they are not track records – they open doors but they do not truly reflect work experience and ability.
Steve Hofmeyr, 'Die Stem' and living in the past
Haji Mohamed DawjeeWill some in the Afrikaans community ever make peace with the fact that a new, better country awaits their participation?
Hey Hlaudi, let's license lying SABC executives instead?
Verashni PillaySABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng's proposal that journalists be licensed is a ploy to get us to accept dangerous threats to our democracy.
Are modern detectives the new priests?
Giles FraserOur obsession with fiction such as "True Detective" suggests something remarkably adjacent to traditional theological concerns, writes Giles Fraser.
Gaza conflict: Lives that matter
Contemplating the war on Gaza, Gabeba Baderoon and Nadia Davids ask who decides on the line dividing those cherished from those who do not matter.
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