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Cartoon: Carlos on Mboweni’s budget

Cartoons Carlos - 26 Jun 2020

As with everything, terms and conditions apply

Chief Justice’s views on Israel are guided by religion, not the Constitution

Opinion Martin Jansen - 26 Jun 2020

Mogoeng should remember that Israel/Palestine is an apartheid state, in which 90% of the land is reserved for Jewish occupation

Leading others in a time of crisis

Opinion Tshilidzi Marwala - 25 Jun 2020

Like other sectors, higher education should continue to respond optimally to the coronavirus and map out a new path

Invest in children to give them a better world

Environment Helen Clark - 25 Jun 2020

This entails putting them at the centre of national strategies, but doing it without high CO2 releases

A week of dodging bullets

Opinion Paddy Harper - 25 Jun 2020

Sani the barber and uBaba risk their lives, while Helen, Queen of the Karens, fires off another salvo

Raising men to handle romantic rejection can diminish violence against women

Opinion Siwaphiwe Myataza - 25 Jun 2020

The problem is that men see a break-up as a challenge to their masculinity and would rather get even than get over it

The taxi industry deserves a full load of respect

Coronavirus Mcebo Dlamini - 24 Jun 2020

If the government has money to bail out the aviation, energy and broadcasting industries, why can it not help this anchor of our economy?

Achille Mbembe: The universal right to breathe

Opinion Achille Mbembe - 24 Jun 2020

‘Modernity has been an interminable war on life. And it is far from over.’ We need to start anew; reclaim the oxygen that belongs to all on Earth

Bongekile Macupe: The virus now has a face

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 24 Jun 2020

Covid-19 has become a reality for the people living in Bongekile Macupe's village in the Eastern Cape

See the light and pass the Copyright Amendment Bill

Opinion Mugwena Maluleke, Tebogo Sithathu, Jack Devnarain, Tusi Fokane, Ben Cashdan & Jace Nair - 24 Jun 2020

Strict copyright laws, championed by media mega-monopolies, dash the prospects of young learners, performance artists and the blind in South Africa

Journalists believe news and opinion are separate, but readers can’t tell the difference

Opinion Kevin M. Lerner - 23 Jun 2020

With many readers coming to news sites from social media links, they may not pay attention to the subtle clues that mark a story published by the opinion staff

Covid-19’s lesson: The stars bandy us about in which way pleases them

Coronavirus John Davenport - 21 Jun 2020

Science, education, technological advancement and wealth made us feel we are protected and have power over life, but we can’t control everything

Our Covid-19 world: how to reintegrate students into universities

Coronavirus Luthando Jack - 21 Jun 2020

Communication about the behavioural shifts and adaptations needed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic at institutions of higher education must be student-led

Rise in forced labour expected amid the Covid-19 economic crisis

Coronavirus Jaynisha Patel & Sarah Child - 20 Jun 2020

Criminals prey on desperate people by offering them false promises of a better life. In fact, they are coercing them into lives of exploitation and misery

Prohibition is back in vogue, and it never ends well

Opinion Guy Oliver - 19 Jun 2020

The global drug war is reaching for parity with Europe’s medieval Hundred Years’ War. As for other accolades, the combination of the apocalypse religions’ poor stabs at philosophy with a battle against narcotics is a masterstroke for everlasting conflict by its American authors

The symbolic power of the Karen

Opinion Khadija Abass - 19 Jun 2020

Racialised privilege works through a lens of colour-blindness. Whiteness is the taken-for-granted set of norms, values, aesthetics and patterns of behaviour against which all other races are measured and judged.

Cartoon: Carlos on the India-China border clashes

Cartoons Carlos - 19 Jun 2020

This past week saw conflict between the two countries resurface

Trump awakes human decency

Opinion Philip Machanick - 18 Jun 2020

The US leader’s outrageous rule and overt bigotry roused the white middle class from indifference

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