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ZIYANDA STUURMAN: How the Zuma years, ANC & inequality created the perfect storm
Unimpeded state capture, degradation of police intelligence and an ANC unwilling to hold leaders accountable is why we're here, writes Ziyanda Stuurman
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ANALYSIS: Spike in COVID-19 cases points to gaps in SA’s response
The first step of any public health response must be prevention. Preventing new infections and containing the pandemic protects health systems from getting close to collapse.
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YONELA DIKO: Jacob Zuma missed an opportunity to be great
None would have expected that Jacob Zuma would turn against the people and take the country on a road to ruin, writes Yonela Diko.
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BUSANI NGCAWENI: Like Somizi’s reality shows, virtual meetings are staged life
Working in the COVID-19 new normal is like a movie. It needs a lot of staging, writes Busani Ngcaweni.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: SA and Jacob Zuma, always at two minutes to midnight
Despite the seemingly endless legal wrangling and spectacle outside Nkandla this week, we awoke on 8 July with our democracy bruised but decidedly intact, writes Judith February.
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FACTSHEET: Laws affecting LGBTI+ people in Africa
South Africa is often a destination for LGBTI+ people fleeing discrimination in other African countries. This factsheet looks at laws affecting these communities across the continent.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: The obscene and overt racism of the Olympics
Several recent decisions by the Olympic authorities serve as proof that black elite athletes are unfortunately still being forced to operate under the rules of Western and white norms, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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FACT CHECK: 9 claims about SA schools by AfriForum’s Ernst Roets
AfriForum’s head of policy and action Ernst Roets has rubbished the state of South African education. Africa Check sorted the wheat from the chaff in his claims.
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ANALYSIS: Jacob Zuma: When did the erstwhile SA revolutionary lose his way?
The posturing is bound to continue. But at the age of 78 Jacob Zuma's long day in the sun is over.
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ANALYSIS: What’s the ‘Delta plus’ variant? And can it escape vaccines?
Delta plus might reduce the efficacy of the vaccines currently in use. But we can't be sure because we’re yet to see good data on this variant.
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Dept of Social Development responds to Haji Mohamed Dawjee on removal of child
Haji Mohamed Dawjee has criticised the Department of Social Development in the Western Cape for the removal of a three-year-old child from his mother and what she describes as its lack of care in the matter. This is their response.
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ANALYSIS: SA’s vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now
South Africa has clearly suffered the consequences of poor strategic decisions to this point. It doesn't need to continue along these lines.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: How do we benefit from mining while addressing its inequality?
As South Africa we too now face a challenge to our economic survival. Mining is vital to our economy, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
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YONELA DIKO: Mbeki must let the opinions on land go
Thabo Mbeki may well belong to a generation that learnt to accept that as long as white people are alright, all is alright with the world, writes Yonela Diko.
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The ConCourt reaffirmed the supremacy of the Constitution with Zuma judgment
In their ruling that Jacob Zuma is guilty of contempt of the Constitutional Court, the justices have honoured the letter and spirit of both the country’s founding document and their institution.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: There's no longer anywhere for Jacob Zuma to hide
There is a resilience at the heart of this country, its people and institutions that is well able to face even Jacob Zuma’s worst instincts of self-preservation and destruction, writes Judith February.
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OPINION: Sassa's new app gives people with disabilities the freedom they deserve
Sassa instituted a new app for those with disabilities to have access to their social grants. This was a huge step for the country's digitisation project, writes Eldrid Jordaan.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: We don't own SOEs because we have to - it is vital
It is important to remember that the state does not own companies simply for the sake of it, or because this is what the democratic government inherited from the apartheid state.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: SA has a 'perfect storm' of issues during COVID-19 third wave
Whether true or not, the perception is that we are doing the usual South African ‘fly by the seat of our pants’ on vaccine roll-outs, writes Judith February.
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MCEBO DLAMINI: Misconceptions about formal education are misleading SA
Ignorant attitudes towards people who have no formal education are misleading, writes Mcebo Dlamini.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: An open letter to Social Development on Nkitha Jacobs
You've taken Nkitha Jacobs from his mother and given a report on the matter that falls so short of competence that it is clear you are passing the buck, Haji Mohamed Dawjee tells Social Development.
