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.
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 ANC’s pre-election vetting process to rid itself of corruption has to be fair and impartial to be effective.
The Oscar Pistorius trial has highlighted the plight of witnesses in court cases, attacks on whom compromise our justice system.