David Cameron’s return to cabinet is a welcome precedent for former heads of cabinet willing to serve
I was singing Queen Latifah’s breakout music hit U.N.I.T.Y at the South African National Civic Organisation’s (Sanco) 7th national conference at the end of November in Durban, dubbed the unity conference by incoming Sanco general secretary Mike Soko in his organisational report. If ever there was an advertisement for the importance of unity in political […]
The furor around the Proteas under-19 captain’s remarks about Israel is not a simple question of free speech
Our energies should be focused on solving our health problems, not defending their existence
In 2024, Americans will be making a choice that will have reverberations far beyond their own borders
The steelmaker’s privatisation was the death knell for the country’s manufacturing industry
If coalitions have been a key part of the country’s democracy then why is there such concern ahead of 2024?
The Pro Elephant Network’s mission is to stop the capture of elephants and to advocate for the release of captive elephants into the wild
The continent’s representatives must resist climate swops at COP28
To achieve inner and outer peace we must become ‘butterflies and flap our wings’
The expected wheat crop is above the 10-year average harvest but estimates for barley and oats are lower than the Crop Estimates Committee forecasts
The Nomakhayas of Nqileni in the Eastern Cape give us a case study to replicate
It is not what we challenge about Madiba’s heritage that is important — it is how we challenge it
In our rush to lionise Nelson Mandela we are liable to forget that it was his humanity that made him a great president and statesman
Policymakers should recognise the inherent impossibility of eradicating a resilient, locally rooted resistance movement
The revolutionary and the philosopher held values that have stood true for two millennia
We must normalise talking about suffering without the burden of a backstory
It is this generation’s obligation to find a new path that will ensure the injustices of the past are undone
The treasury has to ask itself what the true cost is of not funding our watchdog institutions
In embedding sustainability in business, the importance of the ‘S’ in ESG is gaining traction, thus raising the profile on the need to embrace a more ‘holistic human’ that is authentic, diverse, equitable, inclusive and holistically healthy
The real issue is that the February 2023 budget was the least credible assessment of the country’s finances since 1994
Developing the sport in South Africa in the junior category for over a decade, the Royal Bafokeng nation is a growing talent pool
Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler — you read them for the articles, right? The joke might be as untrue as it is clichéd
The different stakeholders responsible for education must come together more than ever before to tackle the development of our children
The M23 rebels, backed by Rwanda, have expanded their attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
David Edwards captures the soul of inner-city Johannesburg – the beauty and the harsh realities
Inflation, that ‘problem’ torturing capitalist economies these days, offers us the first example of such policies
Via its institutions the US is pushing a covert agenda to establish Western beachheads in Ukraine, Hong Kong and Taiwan
The market is the pillar of capitalist ideology, yet it is just another human institution invented and reinvented periodically across human history
When South Africa introduced self-tests for HIV, far more people knew their status and were put on treatment. The same could happen for cervical cancer
The war in Ukraine is accelerating its contraction and history shows that irreversible decline often follows
The West seems more fixated on spending on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe.