Gambian President Adama Barrow has said that he will await the report of the country’s truth commission before pursuing Jammeh’s possible extradition
Failure to govern new technologies to combat global warming could aggravate existing threats to international peace and security
Speech by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor at the Science Forum South Africa, CSIR, Pretoria, December 8 2015
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.
Motshekga’s reported plans to make it easier to close schools could jeopardise pupils’ rights.
The conflicting statements about cheating during the 2014 matric exams equals complete national confusion.
But debilitating education hurdles remain for many foreign children in legal limbo.
Letter from Parliament: EFF MP Andile Mngxitima believes that actually, the struggle against power is the struggle to return meaning to words.
Politics aside, South Africans share aspirations for economic growth under legitimate leadership.
Black people who forget they are black suffer, writes Andile Mngxitama.
The current assault on freedoms would make the pan-Africanist Robert Sobukwe turn in his grave.
SA deserves better than to be ruled by a party that flirts with totalitarianism, writes Barney Pityana.
The Inkatha Freedom Party prepared a generation of young people to become active participants in a liberated South Africa.
Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?
With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.
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.
Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils’ safety and health are now at risk.
Mass protests and the violent reaction of the state indicate that SA is in a period of possible rearticulation of politics, says Andile Mngxitama.
We can learn from the Zanzibar uprising, which liberated people and freed the land, writes Andile Mngxitama.
New infrastructure norms allow far too long to eliminate vast gaps between schools.
Schools are using the ambiguity of current directives to cast out their pregnant pupils.
Chaskalson used his brilliant mind for the benefit of South Africa and all its people.
The funding model for state schools still prevents many from receiving a basic education.
The 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence campaign has become an empty ritual the nation performs to feel good about itself.
The education system does not always respect the rights of female pupils, leading to many dropouts, writes Faranaaz Veriava.
Biographies are notorious for revealing more about their authors than their subjects. Biko: A Biography by Xolela Mangcu falls into this category.
A Constitutional Court ruling highlights the vital role of a free press in our developing democracy.
Urgent steps are needed to address shoddy school infrastructure that leads to below-par results.
It is easy to create a few quick improvements in education — simply test children’s eyesight.
Almost 20 years into a non-racial society, persecution of intellectuals who are pro-black is a dominating force in society, writes Sandile Memela.
Remembering Steve Biko is increasingly becoming an act of "death by memory", as Gail Smith has observed, writes Andile Mngxitama.
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.