This is one of the great global conflicts of our age. History will condemn us if we recognise that fact too late
		
	 
	
		
		A national cannabis master plan has been developed, with the department of trade and industry tasked with its implementation and administration, but the momentum towards turning all of this into a reality, appears to have been lost in the build-up to the 29 May elections
		
	 
	
		
		Very few would argue against the fact that African women are likely to take the brunt of the continent’s reversal of fortunes on the carbon front
		
	 
	
		
		Crime must be treated as a crisis by government before and after May 29 – not just as the election talking point it’s destined to become
		
	 
	
		
		The department of higher education on Friday announced that it would deregister Damelin, CityVarsity, Intec and Lyceum College
		
	 
	
		
		Allegations against the powerful within the ANC will be an acid test for the newly-permanent directorate
		
	 
	
		
		We have learned to live with sporadic electricity supply but South Africans will not be as kind to the government if our taps run dry
		
	 
	
		
		Homophobia is a plague that must be condemned, vigorously and without hesitation, at home and abroad, in our social values and our legislation
		
	 
	
		
		Sewage pollution has harrowing consequences for human health, such as waterborne pathogens like cholera, salmonella, typhoid and hepatitis  
		
	 
	
		
		Violent crime, unemployment, corruption: South Africans have chosen to emotionally sedate themselves as a form of self-preservation