Ray Phiri and Johnny Mekoa survived apartheid, succumbing to mortality while leaving behind exemplary legacies.
The press prison at the ANC conference may have been instated because the party couldn’t afford journalists seeing how heated deliberations had become
Can it be done? Can the necessary funds be dug up from the treasury, and can they be ring-fenced so that they don’t bleed away as funding scheme?
The Constitutional Court decision won’t make any difference to the strategic focus of unseating Zuma: it’s up to the speaker to decide.
In fashioning a new state after apartheid, surely we ought to have done better. Ahmed Timol did not die for this.
We have to keep asking why and how things are deteriorating so badly.
As Lesotho proves, a few well-chosen words from South Africa can make a real difference. Zambia needs to hear them.
The democratic mechanisms have been working slowly on the thinkers but they’ve long been countered by those who already have their hands on the levers
All the public gets to know about the goings-on at Eskom is its never-ending tariff hikes, with a mooted new increase to municipalities of 27%.
If facilities at public schools are not seriously upgraded, including teaching staff, the inequality will not just disappear.