No platitudes, please: Municipalities, politicians must be brutally honest about the water crisis

Pravin Gordhan’s earliest role as an organiser of civil resistance still carries relevance

While political parties bicker over who is to blame, the reality is that millions of pupils in public schools will find themselves crammed into even larger classes, vying for the attention of ill-equipped teachers

South Africa’s seventh parliament has just started its work, and it appears to be doing so with a far more collaborative spirit — and significantly less playing to the gallery — than it did during any of the previous three terms.

Tsakani Maluleke is begging on our behalf, but no one is listening

The party that was marked as the antidote to political stagnancy has become one of its most painful symptoms

We were proud of the country when it went to the International Court of Justice over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but it fails to speak out about ongoing oppression by Harare

Recent events highlight how bigots cherry-pick information to suit their own purposes

Pensioners and other people told their painful stories of loss after losing their savings in the bank heist

Consumers can get their lives back after going under debt review although the process is not easy

John Hlophe was impeached for trying to sway two apex court justices to decide applications linked to the arms deal in Jacob Zuma’s favour

Budgets and policy positions look set to be political footballs when support is needed to pass tabled legislature motions

It’s too early to judge how this parliament will perform, but the notion that 2024 will be a refresh for our politics must surely be declared stillborn