The 2026 UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/Aids presents a crucial opportunity, but its success hinges on governments partnering with civil society, not just using them for optics.…
South Africa, rich in solar and wind resources with billions ready for investment, faces a critical bottleneck: a severe lack of power lines and an opaque grid access queue. This…
The UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on HIV/Aids is set to address the alarming decline in political will and funding, which threatens to unravel decades of progress in HIV…
Effective border management is a public consensus in South Africa, but this article questions whether enforcement alone can solve migration pressures. It argues that migration is…
South Africa faces slow economic transformation, highlighted by a 32.7% unemployment rate and just 6.9% black ownership in its 60 largest listed companies. Speakers at the Top…
Business leaders at the Nedbank Top Empowerment Conference have highlighted compliance fatigue and unclear outcomes under South Africa's broad-based black economic empowerment…
Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, South Africa's "born-free" generation faces high unemployment and limited access to opportunities. This Youth Month, the call for a…
It will take more than policy to change South Africans’ excessive use of alcohol; we all need to take part in the Sober Curious movement
The rural economy should not be forgotten in South Africa’s economic growth agenda,
These countries need to rethink the prohibitive tariffs they place on each other
The FMF Charter says the size of cabinet should be reduced and policy changes introduced to benefit the poor and create jobs
A lack of effective political leadership has contributed to the stagnation and decline of the South African Police Service
Advanced democracies with coalition governments and strong committees understand the necessity of developing rules and institutions to mitigate executive unaccountability
This is the country in which falling in love may be a death sentence and romance is being stabbed to death, remains dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase to be left on the street
Ramaphosa calls on the private sector and labour to work with Transnet and the government to fix escalating problems
Almost a year after the president swore to advance the sector, the government is yet to finalise its master plan, giving big business the edge
What we need from the media is to be able to see much more clearly what the policy options are for getting us out of this mess
The former president has called for the movement of people and goods between South Africa and African states to be easier
Instead of only focusing on what went wrong, analysing policies that have improved people’s lives helps governments NGOs in other actions
Consumers, who have remained resilient despite South Africa’s economic woes over the past decade, are being squeezed on all fronts. What are the policy options? Or is it the same…
