Editorial: Make diplomacy great again
/ 23 May 2025

Editorial: Make diplomacy great again

No rational person should want to live in a world in which the president of a sovereign nation is compelled to prostrate themselves in front of another; or bring along their favourite golfers as if they are rare gifts to a feudal lord

Editorial: The true refugee crisis
/ 16 May 2025

Editorial: The true refugee crisis

South Africa does not have genocide but it does have division — much of it created by the political games that our own leaders play. If there ever was a time to put our bullshit aside and present a unified front to the world, it is now

Who is our opposition anyway?
/ 11 April 2025

Who is our opposition anyway?

South Africans have, in recent years, looked beyond the ANC in hope of finding new voices capable of holding the line on spending and corruption. Instead, what they have received is a bewildering capitulation and weak opposition

Editorial: The SACP should talk people, not power
/ 13 December 2024

Editorial: The SACP should talk people, not power

The SACP is asking important questions of itself but, like the other parties busy with political activities this week — and those threatening to walk out of the government of national unity — it should also be asking itself what material benefit its decisions will bring to those it will be asking to vote for the party come the 2026 local government elections