The government is yet to say how much it cost to commission the statues but no matter how much it spent, this would have made some difference in the lives of the people of Mthatha
She is fighting for precedents that will define the future of women’s athletics. In whatever battles are to come she deserves our full support
When people are robbed of their dignity, it should not be a surprise that agents of the state feel it is acceptable to beat the consciousness out of a man on the side of the road
With an election a year away and apathy among young voters endemic, the ANC youth delegates this weekend — and their counterparts in the other parties — will be well advised to look beyond rhetoric and their political careers and find ways to connect themselves with those beyond the walls of Nasrec
Despite our fears of National Health Insurance NHI being driven by fears of corruption and limited state capacity, the issue of equal access to healthcare for all cannot be dismissed by the fear of what the 16% may lose
The threat of US sanctions has now become overt
Structural reforms are often offered as the solution to South Africa’s growth problem, but we should be wary when they are code for privatisation
Tighter financial conditions will hurt an economy already brought to its knees by the government
In the real world, diplomacy is driven by economic interests
In all the bickering that we’ve been through over the past five years, from the long-running saga about the competence of former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to this week’s parliamentary hearings into André de Ruyter’s allegations of corruption at Eskom, it feels as if we aren’t making progress in dealing with the structural fault lines in our country