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Tobie Loftus

Mining's future will depend not only on what lies beneath the earth, but on how intelligently those resources are recovered. Tobie Loftus is helping redefine that future,…

Bongani Shabangu

For Bongani Shabangu, 30, history is not simply about recording the past—it is about restoring voices that have too often been forgotten. As a lecturer in history education at…

Space Technology, Ground-Level Impact: NWU Expert Shows How Africa Can Turn Satellite Data into Development Solutions

Prof Amare Abebe, director of the Centre for Space Research at North-West University, argues that Africa's space future extends beyond satellites, focusing on using knowledge and…

Recouping drive: The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) have clawed back roughly R11 billion in state capture-related assets and funds.

What society gained from South Africa's anti-corruption commissions

South Africans watched as corporate captures and systemic greed were exposed by commissions like Zondo and Madlanga. Years later, the question remains: what did we truly gain…

ActionSA, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the uMkhonto weSizwe party (MKP) joined the group March on March in a march through central Durban on 26 March 2026. Photo: Action SA

South Africa’s migration crisis: hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

For decades, Black South Africans and African foreign nationals have built communities together, a historical reality that challenges narratives of inherent xenophobia. However,…

Suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

A Network of Silence: What Ekurhuleni reveals about South Africa’s national psyche

The arrests of senior municipal managers and metro police leaders in Ekurhuleni point to a deeper reality: the possible convergence of organised crime, municipal administration,…

Black-on-black persecution: An Operation Dudula demonstration in the Eastern Cape. Photo: Operation Dudula

Testing the will of the people: The state-citizen confrontation in South Africa

The rise of anti-illegal immigration movements like Operation Dudula and March and March signals a critical moment for South African democracy, highlighting deep-seated…

Hostility: South Africa is broken ... but it must not become brutal, if we want renewal, we must confront systems, not strangers.

A broken home looking for a villain to blame

As many marched to demand the removal of undocumented migrants from South Africa, the message was clear: migrants must go. But this article argues that the anger is misdirected,…