Despite its liberal and secular Constitution, South Africa is a religious country. It is a country built on the foundations of African belief systems, the Calvinism of the first European settlers — Dutch and French — and the Protestantism of 1820 British settlers. The Cape Malay slaves brought Islam. Indentured labourers from India docked in […]
“Until the law itself makes it nigh impossible for tragedies like Tatane, Marikana and Khosa to occur without real consequence, our fractured relationship with authority will persist.”
South Africa was the first to welcome the World Cup to our beautiful continent. In these troubled Covid-19 times it’s worth reminding ourselves of that achievement.
“Each day of this lockdown highlights our broken, and uneven society. What we cannot do is retreat into our silos and see the world solely from our view of it. “
“When the threats are not physical, they are economic. The pandemic has already had a devastating impact on the media landscape as advertising revenues have plunged.”
The World Health Organisation continues to praise South Africa’s public-health response to the pandemic. That praise, however, will be long forgotten if we are not able to meet all our other challenges with the same alacrity
The enforcement of the lockdown has seen authorities inflict brutal actions on citizens
Politically, it would also help this country if our president were able to act more decisively against ministers who show little regard for the law
Even in the best of times, there is an inherent tension between the three arms of state
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