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latest news & developmentsYes, victims can bring Gambia’s dictator to justice
Gambian President Adama Barrow has said that he will await the report of the country’s truth commission before pursuing Jammeh’s possible extradition
Failure to govern geoengineering could destabilise peace and security
Failure to govern new technologies to combat global warming could aggravate existing threats to international peace and security
Putting science on the continental agenda
Speech by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor at the Science Forum South Africa, CSIR, Pretoria, December 8 2015
A day to weigh up the continent
May 25 is Africa Day. It is neither a day for Afropessimists to gloat nor one for Afro-optimists to say the African dream has been achieved.
Public participation in education under threat
Motshekga’s reported plans to make it easier to close schools could jeopardise pupils’ rights.
Best response to a cheating scandal? Completely confuse everybody
The conflicting statements about cheating during the 2014 matric exams equals complete national confusion.
Is Parliament offended by the truth?
Letter from Parliament: EFF MP Andile Mngxitima believes that actually, the struggle against power is the struggle to return meaning to words.
Refugee children win right to learn
But debilitating education hurdles remain for many foreign children in legal limbo.
‘Radical’ change is our collective responsibility
Politics aside, South Africans share aspirations for economic growth under legitimate leadership.
Mazibuko’s tea-tray ‘klap’ is a wake-up call for blacks in denial
Black people who forget they are black suffer, writes Andile Mngxitama.
Africa is still waiting for the dawn
The current assault on freedoms would make the pan-Africanist Robert Sobukwe turn in his grave.
Vote ‘no’ to the nightmare of Zuma’s ANC
SA deserves better than to be ruled by a party that flirts with totalitarianism, writes Barney Pityana.
Buthelezi: IFP fought for good citizenship
The Inkatha Freedom Party prepared a generation of young people to become active participants in a liberated South Africa.
The state must do textbooks by the book
Have lessons from the 2012 textbook crisis led to reforms that will ensure it can’t recur?
Our courts are schooling the state
With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.