The way the Russian nuclear deal was handled can only be to ensure a politically driven process, unhampered by technical or financial considerations.
All the whitewashing after Jackie Selebi’s funeral looks suspiciously like another attack from Zuma’s circle on the National Prosecuting Authority.
The voters’ patience is waning, even turning violent.
Since May 2008 the government has done, on a net basis, nothing about xenophobia. The fine words are more than cancelled out by the lack of action.
Two decades of struggle to move away from a South Africa in which the executive and minority interests reign supreme may have been in vain.
Water scarcity is here and we need to act now, as this is more difficult to solve than the electricity crisis.
Since 2008 when wet coal led to the country’s mines being shut down, it has been clear that the country has been in an energy crisis.
We saw that African lives were less important than those of Europeans. Yet what have we done as Africans for the world to see that we value our own?
The decline in the matric pass rate is not nearly enough as the first matric students graduate under the "Caps" curriculum.
As we continue to reel from the horrific massacre in Paris, let us all be Charlie – a new byword for global solidarity against the tyranny of fear.