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Editorial: How do they sleep at night?

Editorial Editorial - 25 Sep 2020

Department of health officials know they haven’t paid many community health workers on the ground in Gauteng since June. Do they care?

Editorial: Just another insult from the ANC

Editorial Editorial - 17 Sep 2020

The ANC’s response to its senior officials’ lockdown trip to Zimbabwe leaves much to be desired

Editorial: Even police stations are unsafe for women

Editorial Editorial - 13 Sep 2020

If a man has the temerity to shoot a woman inside a police station, in front of law enforcement officers, then the country has an even bigger GBV problem than it thinks.

Editorial: The ANC buys itself (more) time

Editorial Editorial - 4 Sep 2020

There is a truth in politics: this crisis will pass, and people will be distracted by the next one. Just survive this moment, and you will escape accountability

GBV stats show our priorities

Editorial Editorial - 28 Aug 2020

What chance do we have of tackling the deeper psychological and societal problems that drive violence against women if we cannot even do the basics?

Editorial: Corruption taints us all

Coronavirus Editorial - 22 Aug 2020

The SIU revealed that it is investigating 658 companies that may have profited unfairly from the Covid-19 crisis. Together those companies raked in over R5-billion — money that could have been better spent plugging some of the many leaks that have imperilled South Africa’s democracy.

Editorial: Women still want their day

Editorial Editorial - 15 Aug 2020

Viwe Dalingozi’s story, like many others, is painful to read and write about. But in court it simply drags on like any other case. As we have written so many times, this cannot be the status quo.

Editorial: The public has a right to know

Coronavirus Editorial - 8 Aug 2020

Transparency and accountability have lost currency in the treasury, and we are all the poorer for it.

Editorial: ANC, stop hurting our country

Editorial Editorial - 31 Jul 2020

The ANC either does not understand the best interests of those it was elected to serve — or it knows and doesn’t care

Editorial: Stop looting Mlangeni’s legacy

Editorial Editorial - 24 Jul 2020

Covid-19 has exposed how widespread corruption tore the heart out of our institutions, from parastatals to hospitals and infrastructure projects.

Editorial: The ANC lacks consequence management

Editorial Editorial - 16 Jul 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Nasrec promises about accountability need to be effected by the ANC, but the party seems incapable of self-policing

Editorial: Combating Covid-19: ‘It is now in your hands’

Coronavirus Editorial - 9 Jul 2020

Despite the destructive system created by politicians and corporations, we can show the power of community and humanity

Editorial: Municipal disgrace shames us

Editorial Editorial - 2 Jul 2020

We will probably hear premiers, a minister or even the president saying they “condemn in the strongest terms” what is happening in municipalities

Editorial: Next budget must be a hot issue

Editorial Editorial - 25 Jun 2020

We are understandably focused on this crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, that is killing people and destroying livelihoods everywhere. But we are losing sight of the other crises that destroy life

Editorial: We must treat GBV as a pandemic

Editorial Editorial - 18 Jun 2020

It has been easier to get someone arrested for breaking lockdown regulations than to get the authorities to respond to calls from women who are being beaten to death

Editorial: We can’t breathe toxic air

Editorial Editorial - 11 Jun 2020

Everyone is affected by pollution, but it is the poorest — black people — who paid and still pay the price

Editorial: Journalism as urgent as ever

Editorial Editorial - 5 Jun 2020

Journalism’s immune system has long been compromised. From declining advertising revenue to the rise of disinformation campaigns and thoughtless social media companies, the industry has borne the brunt of multiple blows over the years

Editorial: The faithful too have a duty of care

Coronavirus Editorial - 28 May 2020

Despite its liberal and secular Constitution, South Africa is a religious country. It is...

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