We need to keep looking out for each other. Otherwise those economic gains will be wiped out as the body count grows
To all intents and purposes, the ANC is the government. It is South Africa. The policies made at Luthuli House decide where we go. The corollary of this is that anything bad in the ANC quickly poisons our state and its institutions.
Pumping limited resources into a project that is predominantly meant to extend dirty coal energy in South Africa is not what local communities and the climate needs.
For years, in moves that harked back to the repressive regime of the Nats, the public broadcaster has been used by the party as its political football in internal factional battles, or to censor dissent.
All the contenders are deeply flawed, losing support, or both
There are several African conflicts that require urgent attention
Before Nzimande or anyone in government thinks of telling young people to “choose” TVET colleges again, they need to fix this sector
For as long as there has been an independent Nigeria, its government has been killing its people.
The chickens have finally come home to roost: if we do not end the looting, it will end us
On Tuesday, Free State farmers set a police van on fire and stormed the Senekal magistrate’s court to get to the cells where two people accused of killing a farm manager were being held. The police took no action. “I want police to treat me like they treat a white man.” This was one wry […]