Digital promise, rural reality: SA’s digital banking revolution reflects innovation and inequality

The genocidal state asks the West for help to fight the fires while its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.

Coalition politics, while not perfect, forces parties to negotiate and compromise, boosting accountability and combatting complacency and corruption

Thirty years on, the patience of the poor is wearing thin as they are subjected to tardy, disrespectful service

Nietzsche’s quote is useful as an ecological analogy of the destruction humans have wrought on nature, the very thing that sustains us

South Africa’s liberation struggle may have brought democracy, but it did not bring freedom

What does the university do with public memory?

Endowed with a third of the world’s supply of them, the continent must push for actions that have the most benefits for its people

My latest book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994

Trade unions are still the best way of organising resistance to the violence of capitalism

For South Africa to maintain its current access to red meat, wool and other livestock products, it must continue to strengthen its biosecurity and revive vaccine manufacturing

The CCMA uses dialogue based on conciliation and mediation to transform labour relations

About 32% of the population is unemployed; of the employed, 35.9% are in informal work; and of the formally employed, nearly 40% earn less than R3,500 a month