Editorial: Financial illiteracy breeds debt

South Africa’s newsrooms are being hollowed out right when we need them the most

We expect the new government to work. Ramaphosa has promised that a list of principles will advance “the building of a united, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous nation”

The responsibility is on party leaders to move beyond their ideological positions and find each other — swiftly — and deliver on the mandate they received from their voters.

We can’t tell you who to vote for — or even any party to vote against. Arriving at a considered decision is your democratic duty

An editorial from the M&G’s coverage of the 2009 elections

We issue a plea to incumbent leaders and the loud opposition: for once, let’s put our country and its people first.

US President Joe Biden’s handling of Israel’s war on Gaza could lose him the all-important student vote

This is one of the great global conflicts of our age. History will condemn us if we recognise that fact too late

A national cannabis master plan has been developed, with the department of trade and industry tasked with its implementation and administration, but the momentum towards turning all of this into a reality, appears to have been lost in the build-up to the 29 May elections

We have learned to live with sporadic electricity supply but South Africans will not be as kind to the government if our taps run dry

Homophobia is a plague that must be condemned, vigorously and without hesitation, at home and abroad, in our social values and our legislation

Sewage pollution has harrowing consequences for human health, such as waterborne pathogens like cholera, salmonella, typhoid and hepatitis