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ANALYSIS: Can we actually learn to live with the coronavirus?
Should we allow SARS-CoV-2 to spread through most of the population while shielding all the elderly and those at high risk of serious disease, thus creating some level of underlying immunity in the population?
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ANALYSIS: Why an amnesty for grand corruption in SA is a bad idea
The first of a series of fatal flaws in the idea is about where to draw the line.
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JULITTA ONABANJO: COVID-19 threatens the gains made for girls
"Let’s redouble our efforts towards a world... where every girl has the power to make informed choices about her body and her life."
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: How the employment stimulus plan will help immediately
The Presidential Employment Stimulus is unprecedented in its scale and breadth, involving a public investment of R100 billion over the next three years.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: When there is no Flight and all we have is Fight
Lockdown rendered a flight response extinct because of limitations on travel, closed borders and so many other implemented rules of isolation. There was nowhere to fly, only to fight, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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YONELA DIKO: Senekal farmers vs the State: What happened to the New Voortrekker?
The New Afrikaner knew why a united South Africa was important.
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MCEBO DLAMINI: The inexcusable childishness of Fikile Mbalula
Fikile Mbalula's tweets have not made him a leader of the people but the celebrity he so much wants to become, writes Mcebo Dlamini.
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ANALYSIS: Examining theories for Africa’s low COVID-19 death rates
The gap between predictions of COVID-19 deaths in Africa and what has actually happened is staggering.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: We can’t let the Joemat-Pettersson fuel reserves issue slide
The former Energy Minister must account for the 2016 sale of strategic fuel reserves, writes Judith February.
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RAMAPHOSA: Senekal shows how easily racial hatred can be stoked
The killing of a young white farmer, allegedly by black men, followed by the spectacle of white farmers storming a police station to get to a black suspect, has opened up wounds that go back many generations.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Actor Sarah Paulson’s ode to feminism in Mrs America
Haji Mohamed Dawjee writes that the story told in Mrs America is a timely reminder of the protest that we are all equal.
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ANALYSIS: Zuma’s attack on a judge is without merit, but it’s dangerous for SA
Claiming a right to determine reality by mere say-so is becoming increasingly commonplace, but we should never get used to it.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Widening access to farm land is a national priority
Transforming patterns of agricultural land ownership is vital not just to address the historical injustices of the past, but to safeguard our nation’s food security.
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MCEBO DLAMINI: What heritage are SA's black people meant to celebrate?
What is the heritage for a people who have been stripped of language, culture and their very own history, asks Mcebo Dlamini.
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QONDILE KHEDAMA: How Black Lives Matter turned the world's perception of history
Is viewing a statue actually an effective way of learning about history?
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ANALYSIS: How social security could make life better in SA after COVID-19
Emergency relief measures were operational for six months and are due to end soon. But the impacts of COVID-19 will be felt long after.
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FACT CHECK: The first US presidential debate
Accusations were traded over voter fraud, the economy and the coronavirus pandemic.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: What does it mean to be South African?
Perpetual uncomfortable reckoning awaits us and we will need to ask afresh what it means to be South African in this place of many stories, writes Judith February.
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Suspension of aid to Ethiopia is another example of Trump’s disregard for Africa
By suspending some aid, the US has reopened the debate on whether developing countries should depend on foreign aid to realise their economic goals.
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YONELA DIKO: The creeping disaster - how to prepare for country's droughts
Drought is a natural phenomenon. But there's a lot more we can do as government and people to mitigate against the effects of it, writes Yonela Diko.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Plans to ease load shedding are in place
We can draw encouragement, confidence and hope from the measures we are taking now to address our immediate electricity challenges, writes the president.
