Court showdown over Malawi’s electoral commission relocation

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

Responsibility without accountability does not strengthen democracy; it hollows it out.

The 2026 State of the Nation Address will outline ambitious policy goals. But policies implemented in digital silence will struggle to earn democratic legitimacy

History does not belong to kings, politicians or even historians alone. It belongs to the evidence. And the evidence, in this case, does not support the proposed renaming