“Apolitical” Is Not Neutral: An Open Letter to Roedean School

Poverty in South Africa has reached crisis levels. Statistics reveal structural failures that demand urgent, coordinated action — not rhetoric — if dignity, democracy and social stability are to survive.

For the first time in a long time, Durban looks ready to step back into the spotlight.

The era of the bank CEO as a distant figure, satisfied with quarterly profits and other growth metrics, is fading

If a state can unilaterally suspend the rights of a racialised group or dump people onto foreign soil, no citizen’s rights are secure

Mining became an economic pillar because South Africa chose to develop it. Offshore oil and gas could do the same if we choose to

Century City stands as proof that long-horizon planning, private infrastructure investment and adaptive development can succeed

Even the court’s own critics and annual reports acknowledge that prolonged delays erode public confidence, yet this matter now stands at more than four times the prescribed period

The Western Cape’s secessionist rhetoric is not a provincial eccentricity but a continental red flag

Local elections do not inspire liberation songs or grand manifestos. But they shape the terrain on which national power is won or lost

This is why hunger cannot be addressed
through food parcels, feeding schemes or emergency relief alone

Gqeberha’s crisis is not simply about water scarcity. It is about whose lives matter, whose voices are heard and whether South Africa is willing to confront the unfinished business of apartheid in its most basic public services

The uncritical cheerleaders for the West cannot be taken seriously until they acknowledge that the West supports and collaborates with authoritarian regimes such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt