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The high noon showdown between Sars and the Goldkid mafia case
Opinion
/ 19 March 2025

The high noon showdown between Sars and the Goldkid mafia case

Freedom to express fundamental rights versus administrative action by the South African Revenue Service exposes a fundamental link to communal interests and justice in a constitutional democracy

By Luthfia Kalla
Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?
Opinion
/ 24 March 2023

Restless Prejudice: Is higher education a right or privilege?

Fair discrimination requires all South Africans to have an equal chance to meet the minimum standard to access institutions of higher education

By Motshedisi Mathibe and Hamandawana Zhou
Fighting for inclusion can never be fascism, Drew Forrest!
Opinion
/ 19 January 2022

Fighting for inclusion can never be fascism, Drew Forrest!

The M&G has a responsibility to deplatform dehumanising views, to advocate for free speech but not allow hate speech

By Zama Ndlovu
Vaccine conundrums to keep one up at night
Opinion
/ 9 January 2022

Vaccine conundrums to keep one up at night

Why do religious leaders feel no compunction to harm their followers, when they could ‘pray for the destruction of a satanic vaccine’ instead?

By Johann van der Westhuizen
Covid-19 a stress-test for legislative emergency provisions in African countries
Africa
/ 14 October 2021

Covid-19 a stress-test for legislative emergency provisions in African countries

Research by a Cape-based academic centre found that the implementation of legislative provisions was done selectively in South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia

By Marcia Zali
Review: Mahmood Mamdani on the ‘non-national’ state
Friday
/ 20 August 2021

Review: Mahmood Mamdani on the ‘non-national’ state

Mahmood Mamdani’s latest book, ‘Neither Settler nor Native’ asks a political question: Rights for whom?

By Sandile Ngidi
Shadow of eviction looms over farm dwellers
National
/ 29 November 2020

Shadow of eviction looms over farm dwellers

In part two of a series on the lives of farm dwellers, Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni finds a community haunted by the scourge of eviction

By Tshepiso Mabula ka Ndongeni
“In my heart I scream”: Involve young people in decision-making about their lives
Opinion
/ 8 November 2020

“In my heart I scream”: Involve young people in decision-making about their lives

Laws on access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and age of consent to sexual activity in many countries do not adequately serve the needs of young people and even when they are progressive, they are often not well implemented

By #OurYouthIndaba
Protecting South Africa in the digital information and entertainment age
Opinion
/ 26 August 2020

Protecting South Africa in the digital information and entertainment age

The Films and Publications Amendment Act aims to protect citizens, but new technology requires that the regulations and guidelines are updated

By Lynette Kamineth, Laurie Less and Pandelis Gregoriou

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