There can be no repeat budget bungle

This year, Donald Trump’s antipathy to the media has manifested into a more focused, deliberate assault on press freedom and procedures

The latest gut punch arrived earlier this month with Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi gazetting a blanket ban on edible cannabis products

Statistics are scant, but the foster care system in South Africa has its fair share of critics. There is a severe backlog, inadequate resources and a shortage of trained foster parents, meaning high turnover rates

We should celebrate contributions from the private sector to fulfill a need but not at the cost of using children as billboards

The Competition Commission’s findings regarding search engines and social media platforms is positive, but the media’s salvation lies with its readers

People living with HIV and related ailments have been handed a practical death sentence because Trump is annoyed about the Expropriation Act and South Africa’s support for Palestine

Behind the bitter press conferences, buried beneath the combative media headlines, realpolitik was at work

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla finally appeared in court four years after the riots in KwaZulu-Natal

The judge president has damaged his reputation and by extension that of the wider judiciary

The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post

The water crisis is severe, but it is not unfixable. The blueprint is there — what is required is the political will to make it work.

The SACP is asking important questions of itself but, like the other parties busy with political activities this week — and those threatening to walk out of the government of national unity — it should also be asking itself what material benefit its decisions will bring to those it will be asking to vote for the party come the 2026 local government elections