Yes, victims can bring Gambia’s dictator to justice
Gambian President Adama Barrow has said that he will await the report of the country’s truth commission before pursuing Jammeh’s possible extradition
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Failure to govern geoengineering could destabilise peace and security
Failure to govern new technologies to combat global warming could aggravate existing threats to international peace and security
Putting science on the continental agenda
Speech by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor at the Science Forum South Africa, CSIR, Pretoria, December 8 2015
A day to weigh up the continent
May 25 is Africa Day. It is neither a day for Afropessimists to gloat nor one for Afro-optimists to say the African dream has been achieved.
Public participation in education under threat
Motshekga’s reported plans to make it easier to close schools could jeopardise pupils’ rights.
Best response to a cheating scandal? Completely confuse everybody
The conflicting statements about cheating during the 2014 matric exams equals complete national confusion.
Refugee children win right to learn
But debilitating education hurdles remain for many foreign children in legal limbo.
Is Parliament offended by the truth?
Letter from Parliament: EFF MP Andile Mngxitima believes that actually, the struggle against power is the struggle to return meaning to words.
‘Radical’ change is our collective responsibility
Politics aside, South Africans share aspirations for economic growth under legitimate leadership.
Mazibuko’s tea-tray ‘klap’ is a wake-up call for blacks in denial
Black people who forget they are black suffer, writes Andile Mngxitama.
Africa is still waiting for the dawn
The current assault on freedoms would make the pan-Africanist Robert Sobukwe turn in his grave.
Vote ‘no’ to the nightmare of Zuma’s ANC
SA deserves better than to be ruled by a party that flirts with totalitarianism, writes Barney Pityana.
Buthelezi: IFP fought for good citizenship
The Inkatha Freedom Party prepared a generation of young people to become active participants in a liberated South Africa.
The state must do textbooks by the book
Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?
Our courts are schooling the state
With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.
Soapbox: How Malema became Mao’lema
A magical moment took place recently. A symbolic reconstitution of 60 000 into a single force in the form of Malema as Mao, writes Andile Mngxitama.
Schools left in an intolerable infrastructure limbo
Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils’ safety and health are now at risk.
Elections: It’s time to formulate a new democratic society
Mass protests and the violent reaction of the state indicate that SA is in a period of possible rearticulation of politics, says Andile Mngxitama.
Zanzibar: Revolt spiced up island life
We can learn from the Zanzibar uprising, which liberated people and freed the land, writes Andile Mngxitama.
Progress betrayed by loopholes and double-digit deadlines
New infrastructure norms allow far too long to eliminate vast gaps between schools.
Don’t rely on courts: fix the policy
Schools are using the ambiguity of current directives to cast out their pregnant pupils.
Arthur Chaskalson 1931-2012: Lifetime devoted to justice
Chaskalson used his brilliant mind for the benefit of South Africa and all its people.
Righting the wrongs of school costs
The funding model for state schools still prevents many from receiving a basic education.
Mngxitama: Time to rethink the root causes of violence
The 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence campaign has become an empty ritual the nation performs to feel good about itself.
Pregnant girls need protection
The education system does not always respect the rights of female pupils, leading to many dropouts, writes Faranaaz Veriava.
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Biko biography found wanting
Biographies are notorious for revealing more about their authors than their subjects. Biko: A Biography by Xolela Mangcu falls into this category.
Cementing the right to publish and be damned
A Constitutional Court ruling highlights the vital role of a free press in our developing democracy.
Rich school, poor school – the great divide persists
Urgent steps are needed to address shoddy school infrastructure that leads to below-par results.
No easy solutions
It is easy to create a few quick improvements in education — simply test children’s eyesight.
On the persecution of Andre Brink
Almost 20 years into a non-racial society, persecution of intellectuals who are pro-black is a dominating force in society, writes Sandile Memela.
Steve Biko: A dream not deferred, but defiled
Remembering Steve Biko is increasingly becoming an act of "death by memory", as Gail Smith has observed, writes Andile Mngxitama.
SADC leaders duplicitous in axing tribunal
So often are the winds of change said to blow through the southern reaches of Africa that the uninformed might think there are always hurricanes here.