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Cameroon is a ship without a captain

Ahead of planned protests, Cameroon’s main opposition leader argues that change is more urgent than ever

maurice kamto - 21 Sep 2020

On Jackson Hlungwani: A close encounter with an artistic deity

Friday Mary Corrigall - 21 Sep 2020

The dirty tricks climate scientists face

Environment marc hudson - 20 Sep 2020

Corruption allegations resurface at state biology lab

National Sabelo Skiti - 20 Sep 2020

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Q&A Sessions: ‘Nobody will be able to stop us’ — Desmond D’Sa

Paddy Harper - 13 Sep 2020

Desmond D’Sa, winner of the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014, tells Paddy Harper how being forcibly removed from his home at the age of 10 taught him to fight for his rights

Opinion

The bloody battle to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

John Davenport - 20 Sep 2020

Neither side will hesitate for a second to do anything to win

Africa

‘He ain’t heavy, he’s a policeman and he’s paying . . .’

andrew arinaitwe - 20 Sep 2020

The story behind Ugandan photojournalist Nicholas Bamulanzeki’s iconic picture of the policeman in the floods

National

The Qwelane case: When human rights meet human rights

Sarah Smit - 20 Sep 2020

The Jon Qwelane case brings into focus the tension between hate speech and freedom of expression

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Special Reports

Covid-19 Workplace Response Interventions Successful

special reports - 11 Sep 2020

The overall focus of these trainings was on the implications and management of Covid-19 in the workplace and strengthening Occupational Safety and Health

E-payments for the unbanked are booming

The pandemic is providing mobile phone network operators with a unique chance to partner with fintech firms and banks to deliver clever e-commerce solutions to the informal sector in Africa

osahon akpata - 20 Sep 2020

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New laws could be a win for gender-violence activists

Opinion ropafadzo maphosa - 19 Sep 2020

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Hollowing of skills and defunding of Stats SA works for a failing state

Opinion Gumani Tshimomola - 18 Sep 2020

Inside Zim’s illicit gold mine trade

Desperate people mine the mineral, but it is ‘untouchable big people’, including top state officials, who reap the real benefits

Stephen Tsoroti & ankita anand - 18 Sep 2020

Manifesto against the presidency for life in Africa

Africa tierno monenembo & veronique tadjo & eugene ebode - 17 Sep 2020

If we do not take care, presidents will make lawlessness the standard of our civic life. Let’s make sure it does not come to that!

US foreign policy may be creating instability in Africa

Africa w gyude moore - 17 Sep 2020

Sometimes, the best foreign policy might be not to get involved at all

Why insurance firms’ earnings are down

Covid-19 has hit the insurance industry especially hard

Tshegofatso Mathe - 19 Sep 2020

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SA Express employees in R250m crowdfunding bid to buy their airline

Business thando maeko - 18 Sep 2020

Amid the overnight, worldwide crash of the air travel industry, a group of retrenched SA Express employees have an ambitious plan to raise R250-million in seed funding to buy the cash-strapped airline.

Debt rises as virus eats paycheques

Business Tshegofatso Mathe & thando maeko - 17 Sep 2020

Heavily indebted, South Africans turn to loan sharks rather than banks for short-term relief, while business resists borrowing from banks due to economic uncertainty

Politics

Clicks-bait: EFF MP’s new parole probe

Kenny Motsamai, a parolee who is also an EFF MP, could be sent back to jail if correctional services finds he violated his parole conditions

Lester Kiewit - 18 Sep 2020

More North West mayors face recall

Politics Paddy Harper - 17 Sep 2020

The ANC is wielding its axe to clear out ineffective councillors and those facing criminal charges

Zandile Gumede and her supporters face ANC backlash

Politics Paddy Harper - 16 Sep 2020

Defiant backers of the former eThekwini chairperson and mayor, who has appeared in court over corruption charges linked to a tender, face disciplinary action over ‘divisive’ court protest

200 Young South Africans 2020

Environment

Debt-for-climate swaps are crucial for economic recovery in the developing world

COMMENT: Developing countries face a debt crisis that will only become worse as the Covid-19 pandemic continues, and massive debt relief will inevitably be necessary. The only question is whether it will be designed to address the even larger climate crisis

shamshad akhtar & kevin p gallagher & stephany griffith jones & jorg haas & ulrich volz - 1 Sep 2020

Iraqi rivers under threat from dams in Iran and Turkey

Environment Agency - 29 Aug 2020

‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Laura makes landfall in US

Environment Agence France presse - 27 Aug 2020

Arctic sea ice melting faster than forecast

Environment Agence France presse - 26 Aug 2020

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Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

Special Reports

Covid-19: Childhood and adolescence disrupted

'What we’re getting right now is that we see that there’s a lot of fear, anxiety, depression, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorders'

special reports - 9 Sep 2020

Arts & Culture

Friday

Is kwaito an old thing yet?

Kwaito was born during South Africa’s transition to democracy and lives on as a kind of heritage

esinako ndabeni - 21 Sep 2020

Extract from ‘Born to Kwaito’: How we choose to fashion ourselves

Friday esinako ndabeni - 21 Sep 2020

Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

Friday Niren Tolsi - 17 Sep 2020

A modicum of release: Lumumba’s remains return home at last

Friday Percy Zvomuya - 17 Sep 2020

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Special Reports

The ‘acceptable’ theft

So many of us point fingers at the rampant corruption in the public sector, but don’t think about ourselves and the wrongs we’ve normalised through policy

[email protected] - 1 Sep 2020

Special Reports

Young professional shares his passion for the public sector and encourages others to choose...

'I was given the opportunity to serve my articles at the Auditor General’s offices and that's where I developed a preference for working in the public sector'

special reports - 1 Sep 2020

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A dose of courage: The key for women who want to make it in...

'I believe that a woman can and should have it all and make it work – it's my goal to use my story to inspire young and ambitious girls to believe this too'

special reports - 1 Sep 2020

Education

White elephant schools reveal lack of progress

The schools rationalisation programme is two decades old, but is still plagued by inconsistencies

Thokozani Chilenga Butao - 20 Sep 2020

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Government must give a helping hand to learners who drop out

Education Bongekile Macupe - 18 Sep 2020

We cannot simply accept that 75 000 young people or more have dropped out of school this year and that life continues as normal — we need to give them opportunities

Folly of school assessment in a pandemic

Education Joanne Hardman - 13 Sep 2020

The method used to determine whether children should move to the next grade considers what they recall rather than their potential to learn

Sport

African Blogtable: Which team will dominate this year’s NBA Western Conference finals?

This year’s NBA Western Conference finals sees the Lakers face off against the Nuggets, a matchup that last recalled a decade ago. We asked our team of experts for their predictions

Refiloe Seiboko - 20 Sep 2020

Semenya’s long run for justice ends

Sport Luke Feltham - 10 Sep 2020

World Athletics, in its pursuit of Semenya, has destroyed anything resembling fairness. The waters have been polluted, leaving future generations to wade through a set of rules that make sense to very few people.

The Premier League returns: Strange times, stranger football

Sport Luke Feltham - 10 Sep 2020

English football is set for (another) defiant return, bringing with it several bizarre subplots

World

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Australian journalists flee China fearing arrest

Their dramatic overnight exit came following days of secret wrangling that had seen both men holed up in Australia's diplomatic missions to escape the clutches of China's feared security police

Andrew Beatty - 8 Sep 2020

Death in small-town America

Coronavirus Peter Rothpletz & Kiri Rupiah - 5 Sep 2020

As the coronavirus continues its deadly march, funeral directors in small-town America quietly attend to burying the dead

Trial opens over Charlie Hebdo terror attacks that stunned France

World valentin bontemps & anne sophie lasserre - 2 Sep 2020

14 people accused of helping jihadist gunmen storm the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket went on trial on Wednesday, five years after three days of terror sent shock waves through France

Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

Special Reports

Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

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Recycling water and waste management

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

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POPIA: it’s not as scary as you think

Companies that get proactive about compliance are creating huge strategic advantages for themselves — they are able to reduce operational costs

special reports - 16 Sep 2020

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CUT declared as medium risk

‘Our major challenge at the university is the access to appropriate technology and internet connectivity for our students’

special reports - 15 Sep 2020

Special Reports

Headline Speakers announced for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

SingularityU announces multi-national line up with world-renowned speakers addressing ground-breaking topics to solve the global grand challenges

special reports - 12 Sep 2020

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