As with all South Africa’s good intentions, the ambitious goals are consistently undermined by a lack of implementation.
Interdicts served on several media recently are a hint at yet another attempt to protect SAA boss Dudu Myeni – at the cost of the national airline.
Our water-agriculture nexus has been broken, just like its energy component was broken seven years ago by the same kind of political paralysis.
The latest spat is just another internal ANC struggle for power, and it will contribute only to greater ideological confusion.
The only thing Eskom has to do now is connect the greenpower projects to the national grid – but even this is proving to be a hard ask.
Ultimately, the protests are about much more than fees. They are about the diminishing hopes of South Africa’s youth.
There are procedures and forums against any report that impairs someone’s dignity and reputation; criminal defamation suits are unnecessary.
If a bidding company’s financial relationship has the potential to favour it in the award of a tender, it should not be bidding in the first place.
If we are concerned about aspects of China, it is there that we should concentrate our efforts.
Overall, it is Zuma’s own poor leadership that is aggravating an already deteriorating situation.
It’s been a grim few weeks of mounting evidence of this impunity Zuma believes he is entitled to, while evidence is not suffered to stand in his way.
Instead of acknowledging the logistical challenges at hospitals and clinics, the minister has tried to shift the focus to others.
How much is enough? What will be the tipping point for those of us who are law-abiding, concerned citizens?
Given the faction-ridden nature of South African politics and the deep divisions in the ANC, a further turn of the wheel is quite conceivable.
Given the faction-ridden nature of South African politics and the deep divisions in the ANC a further turn of the wheel is quite conceivable.
The Constitutional Court must indeed rule on the matter of doctor-assisted dying, if only because of the need for a national rule.
The crying need at this moment is for a united stand against these outrages from all prominent South Africans.
South Africa and Nigeria need each other in many ways. It is time the countries start behaving like it again and strengthen the common interest.
We ask Minister Blade Nzimande, all 26 vice-chancellors and every faculty dean to please declare publicly their views and policies on plagiarism.
Since May 2008 the government has done, on a net basis, nothing about xenophobia. The fine words are more than cancelled out by the lack of action.
Two decades of struggle to move away from a South Africa in which the executive and minority interests reign supreme may have been in vain.
Water scarcity is here and we need to act now, as this is more difficult to solve than the electricity crisis.
Political interference with Sars is a serious attack on the independence of the institution.
The courts have ruled in disapproval of secrecy and unduly delay, and rightfully so.
South Africa has one of the fastest-growing diabetes epidemics in the world. But HIV and Aids are reported more truthfully nowadays.
Both party funding and political debate are obscured by non-disclosure of financial sources. Parliament must change this urgently.
Restricting journalists is just one of the ways in which governments try to restrict the rights of their citizenry.
With Zuma’s power waning, we should not be surprised that there’s been another purge of the country’s top spooks.
To show that Isis and Boko Haram do not speak for all Muslims, as they claim, it is vital that moderate, democratic Muslims stand up and be counted.
While attempting to protect Jacob Zuma, the ANC seems to have forgotten the rationale behind the establishment of the office of the public protector.
The point about secret information is: it is shared away from the glare of accountability. It doesn’t need to be true; it only needs to be believed.
Frustration leads some people to long for the death sentence, but capital punishment would do nothing against the causes of crime.