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The proposed 4 000MW project would be built at Duynefontein next to the existing Koeberg  nuclear power station near Cape Town.
Photo: David Harrison

Africa deserves better than a nuclear push

Extending the life of Koeberg, with its associated expense and waste-disposal problems, is not necessary — and nuclear energy is not clean or cost-effective

Panellists Lizeka Tandwa, M&G political editor; Sarah Smit, M&G economics editor; Dr Ongama Mtimka, history and politics studies lecturer at Nelson Mandela University; Sanusha Naidoo, foreign policy and political analyst, and Tshidi Madia, Eyewitness News politics associate editor. (Photo: David Harrison)

The 2024 Post-Sona Critical Thinking Forum

Panellists had little confidence in President Ramaphosa’s address

2023 post Sona panellists Athandiwe Saba, former M&G deputy editor; Dr Roland Ngam, Programme Manager for Climate Change and Sociological Transfomation at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; Lizeka Tandwa, Political Editor at the Mail & Guardian; Tessa Dooms, Director Rivonia Circle, and Professor Richard Calland, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town.

M&G Critical Thinking Forum | State of the Nation Address

Join the Mail & Guardian, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and a panel of experts at the post-State of the Nation Address Critical Thinking Forum in Cape Town

Panelists discuss the state of the nation address in Cape Town. (David Harrison/M&G)

Protests are the true state of the nation … the government is detached from its people’

No legal provision for calling a state of disaster because your cabinet is incompetent and your government incapable, panel hears

How laws can be bolstered to stop the human rights box-ticking of big corporates

There’s always a risk of due diligence becoming a mere box-ticking exercise for big firms, panel discussion hears

February 10 2022 – The State of the Nation address held at the City of Cape Town City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by David Harrison

Ramaphosa needs muscle to implement Sona promises

The biggest challenge the president has is the bureaucratic implementation.

(John McCann/M&G)

EU-banned pesticides are harming farmworkers in SA

The department does not even have a list of registered pesticides, a damning report finds

The Portfolio: [BR]OTHER by James Oatway and Alon Skuy

In their new book, photojournalists Alon Skuy and James Oatway situate their often harrowing images among contextual writing