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ANALYSIS: Why do the archives damaged in Cape Town’s fire matter so much?
Why is the African Studies Book Collection - which is housed at the Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town - so significant?
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Inside the deception playbook of Jacob Zuma and his cronies
In this playbook, any institution which seeks to hold the powerful and corrupt to account is singled out as ‘biased’ or the tool of (white or black) monopoly capital, writes Judith February.
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YONELA DIKO: Jacob Zuma was a tragedy. Ace Magashule is a farce
If we are to learn anything from our own history, it has to be that whatever limitations Cyril Ramaphosa has, Ace Magashule is not the answer, writes Yonela Diko.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Port of Durban shows Operation Vulindlela is going well
Positioning Durban as a world-class port and hub port for the Southern Hemisphere will take more work, but results are encouraging, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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ANALYSIS: Precarious power tilts towards Ramaphosa in battle inside the ANC
Cyril Ramaphosa's rise to power in 2018 offered South Africans hope that he would end corruption. Indeed, he made promises to do so. But he has met with resistance, especially within the ANC.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Hugs are the parachutes for the fall of anxiety
'Tis the season for anxiety. So go out and help a friend with a simple, human response, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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HEALTH CHECK: Beware of social media posts promoting rooibos tea as a ‘cure-all’
According to the internet, one of South Africa’s favourite beverages, rooibos tea, can cure many ills. But are these claims accurate?
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ANALYSIS: New research shows the impact of SA’s levy on sugar-sweetened drinks
The results are in: South Africa’s ground-breaking health promotion levy, introduced in 2018, is working.
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BANDILE MASUKU: Defining 'executive oversight' is in the public interest
After the High Court ruled that former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku could not challenge the SIU report into his behaviour, he believes it erred.
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NKENKE KEKANA: A response to distortions of ANC policy by so-called RET forces
The RET grouping is a dangerous reformist tendency, sugar-coated in revolutionary jargon seeking to destroy the ANC from within, writes Nkenke Kekana.
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YONELA DIKO: DA at a crossroads: In search of political relevance on the cheap
The shifts needed to make real and meaningful change in racial inequality require deeply uncomfortable changes to white lives, writes Yonela Diko.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: We need to put the SA economy on a different growth path
In his weekly newsletter, the president said that because of what we had lost due to the coronavirus pandemic, the country needed to forge a new economy in a new global reality.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: How did South Africa lose its way so badly?
Now is a definitive time to be seeking to draw lessons from the past and to think about a future South Africa shaped by citizens who demand accountability from those in power, writes Judith February.
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OPINION: Can we predict if Derek Chauvin is guilty of George Floyd's murder?
Looking at the evidence and testimony so far, it's going to be complicated to predict if Derek Chauvin will be guilty of the charges brought against him, writes Nkanyiso Ngqulunga.
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KHAYA XABA: 28 years after Chris Hani’s assassination, how is SA faring?
It’s important to undertake a frank assessment of some of the most pressing South African issues that our beloved Cde Chris Thembisile Hani fought for, writes Khaya Xaba.
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HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Love, loss and living on
Losing the love of your life is more than just losing their presence. They don’t just take their bodies with them when they die. They take everything else, reflects Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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ANALYSIS: This is how SA’s higher education funding system can be more realistic
Ongoing student protests in South Africa have once again highlighted various problems with higher education funding. They boil down to challenges of affordability and sustainability.
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ZAMANI SAUL: The ANC’s RET grouping is a precursor to a new party
The real threat to internal cohesion of any political party is disruptive activities by intra-party groupings which find expression in different ways, forms and styles, writes Zamani Saul.
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ANALYSIS: This is why South Africa is not bottom of the class for road safety
An accurate understanding of the problem is an important part of finding solutions.
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YONELA DIKO: Education should not be commoditised
Education has become simply an economic investment used to draw economic returns and not a process of developing a human being for wider social development, writes Yonela Diko.
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DAVID MAIMELA: The blessing and curse of political deployment
The idea that the political system can have a depoliticised state or bureaucracy is not only naïve but dangerous, writes David Maimela
