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Editorial: Political meddling won’t save the SABC

Editorial Editorial - 20 Nov 2020

For years, in moves that harked back to the repressive regime of the Nats, the public broadcaster has been used by the party as its political football in internal factional battles, or to censor dissent.

Editorial: Desperately seeking an opposition

Editorial Editorial - 13 Nov 2020

All the contenders are deeply flawed, losing support, or both

Editorial: Cyril must embrace his AU role

Editorial Editorial - 6 Nov 2020

There are several African conflicts that require urgent attention

Editorial: Nzimande’s shame is youth’s loss

Editorial Editorial - 31 Oct 2020

Before Nzimande or anyone in government thinks of telling young people to “choose” TVET colleges again, they need to fix this sector

Editorial: SA will be bankrupted by looters

Editorial Editorial - 17 Oct 2020

The chickens have finally come home to roost: if we do not end the looting, it will end us

Editorial: Treat all people like white men

Editorial Editorial - 10 Oct 2020

On Tuesday, Free State farmers set a police van on fire and stormed the Senekal magistrate’s court to get to the...

Editorial: Arrests expose the rot in the ANC

Editorial Editorial - 2 Oct 2020

The ANC has used its power to create networks of patronage. And this means going after corruption will cost the party financially

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

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