‘The truth is that the likes of France continue to benefit from migration while still waging a war on migrants’
‘That familiar confluence of triumph and tragedy is what builds our ability to understand and share the feelings of each other’
‘How far can you fall in the three days that you stood in line, having been forced to borrow money to pay taxi fares to get to a collection point?’
‘We shudder to think what could happen should two KwaZulu-Natal powerhouses, the king and the former president — both under threat — come together’
‘As the M&G turns its focus to allegations of abuse of power in the NGO space, our work has been met with hostility. And it has left us perplexed’
‘Cue the now all-too-familiar pattern of patronage — houses, overseas trips, spa treatments’
In South Africa — which we see as ‘our land’ — we too are watching the borderisation of the state
‘The Ramaphoria train has its own problems. Its rural vote is declining rapidly, threatening its hard-won gains in KwaZulu-Natal’
‘The Fifa World Cup is an extravagant symbol of so much that is wrong with this world. But let’s not kid ourselves: we are going to watch it anyway’
‘The department of education’s plan to make history compulsory for every learner throughout their schooling career is to be applauded’