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.
Israel’s right to guarantee the safety of its citizens cannot justify its grossly disproportionate response to Hamas rockets.
Acts such as Malakoane’s go beyond nepotism. They are simply the crudest and cruellest form of political arrogance and corruption.
The Egypt case has received international attention, but less attention has been given to journalists under fire in the rest of Africa.
It should not be possible for people facing serious claims of misconduct to get government jobs or to shift from one branch of government to another.
Could a different wind of transformation be blowing through the increasingly irrelevant third arm of state, generated by Julius Malema’s EFF?
Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s promotion to the position of minister of energy seems a bizarre move.
It is a scandal that South Africa is doing nothing to rein in Swaziland’s King Mswati and his despotic lieutenants.
Looking back over 20 years of democracy through the eyes of the "Mail & Guardian".
Cabinet ministers and government officials have been protecting Jacob Zuma since the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane conference, at the expense of the people.
The party lists for office bearers and MPs will be scrutinised by members between now and the national election in early May.
The Oscar Pistorius trial has highlighted the plight of witnesses in court cases, attacks on whom compromise our justice system.
The ANC’s pre-election vetting process to rid itself of corruption has to be fair and impartial to be effective.
Years after Snuki Zikalala’s reign at the SABC, Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s tenure has become a bad parody of the kind of transformation people want to see.
Even if the DA’s march is silly, the ANC should not endorse Umkhonto weSizwe "vets" turning the streets around Luthuli House into a "no-go" zone.
Don’t dismiss Zille’s courtship of Ramphele as an electoral gimmick. It’s part of a plan to make the DA more acceptable to black South Africans.
Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula, PSL head Irvin Khoza and Safa president Danny Jordaan need to work together to save South African football.
The ANC is likely to win next year’s election, so the NEC must decide at its candidates’ list conference if the president or the people come first.
A court ruling that SA must look into allegations that exiled Zimbabwean activists were tortured in Zimbabwe in 2007 could well set a precedent.
Was it a surprise that a half-built shopping mall collapsed in Tongaat? No. Could it have been avoided? Yes.
The use of the police, intelligence services and NPA to fight personal, professional and political battles has reached crisis proportions in SA.