Protection of human rights depends on responsible and well-functioning systems of governance

The Inaugural National Transport Conference signals a turning point. The plans are made. The commitments are real. Now comes the work

On 21 March 1960, in the township of Sharpeville, police opened fire on an unarmed crowd of people protesting the apartheid pass laws. 69 people  were killed – but reports suggest that the actual death toll was higher. Many more were injured. Protesters shot in the back as they fled. The youngest was 12 years […]

Tongaat Hulett, once the pride of the sugar belt and a 134-year-old industrial icon, has collapsed under the weight of mismanagement, scandal and shifting global markets

It is easier to start wars than to end them

Africa’s liberation was built on the courage that our schools are failing to teach

The rise of darkness indeed splits the world … It divides us into those who believe in humanity and those who feel entitled to do whatever they want

We are doomed: Not by fate or lack of intelligence but because we insist on pretending that we live in a normal world

As Western donors pull back and food insecurity deepens in the landlocked south-eastern African nation, the rise of a UK-registered Islamic charity is exposing both the necessity and the governance risks of a changing humanitarian order

The party system is standing, while the bonds between political parties and citizens crumble

Business leaders have condemned the Bill, arguing that if enacted as is, it will effectively kill the tobacco industry. 

Every Women’s Month, we talk about empowerment. We talk about inclusion. We talk about closing gaps. But perhaps the real question is: what if women had never been absent from the economy in the first place? What if we have simply been measuring economic power incorrectly? Traditional economic metrics tell us that women are underrepresented. […]

My father was born in the 1960s, in a period marked by intensified repression in occupied Azania. His birth came just three years after the banning of liberation movements and two years before the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement — a historic force that would profoundly shape his political outlook and revolutionary path. He […]