‘So any means that allow women who have suffered sexual violence to articulate their pain are to be welcomed’
‘Assuming to be true what we cannot yet know makes us vulnerable to manipulation, with consequences for both the innocent and the guilty’
‘South Africans are so inured to protests that a small protest at an NPA office in Cape Town barely registers’
‘Asking Moyane and Makwakwa to be accountable might make those taxpayers feel a little better’
‘Speaking out against power and its abuses can lead to a great deal more abuse being directed at the accuser’
‘What possible reason could the president have to delay the release of the report? To sow more chaos? You’d think he’d done enough of that already. ‘
When women across the world say #MeToo, it’s easy to feel guilty for being silent. But not every woman has to say “me too” and feel exposed.
Amid the long series of Gupta emails, it can be easy to lose sight of the other instance of “state capture” — or even “country capture”.
Judge Mothle has found that freedom fighter Ahmed Timol never committed suicide, as the officers from the old Security Branch of the police claimed.
South Africans who deal with bureaucracy often blame its apparent paralysis, or at least lethargy, on corruption, incompetence or laziness.