Despite the concrete and multiple improvements in the quality of education, it boils down to how much confidence the public has in state schooling.
2014 will be a heady news mashup with the trials of Julius Malema and Oscar Pistorius on the agenda, as well as Thuli Madonsela’s Nkandla report.
The booing of President Jacob Zuma at the memorial for former president Nelson Mandela this past week has stirred contrasting responses.
Our farewell to Nelson Mandela must not be final – we must refuse to say goodbye to his example, his ideals, and the dream we share with him.
The ANC is likely to win next year’s election, so the NEC must decide at its candidates’ list conference if the president or the people come first.
The M&G’s revelations explain why ministers and their servants in Parliament were so concerned about Thuli Madonsela’s provisional Nkandla report.
A court ruling that SA must look into allegations that exiled Zimbabwean activists were tortured in Zimbabwe in 2007 could well set a precedent.
In the past 10 years, McMafia has made its appearance in SA: fugitives from justice drawn by our weak and corruptible law enforcement system.
Was it a surprise that a half-built shopping mall collapsed in Tongaat? No. Could it have been avoided? Yes.
We salute sculptor Jane Alexander and writer Nadine Gordimer for art that is as apt today as it was in the early 1980s.