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[OPINION] Mihalik’s gang-style death shatters suburbia’s blissful ignorance
Executions are part of the lexicon of a different world to the plush Atlantic Seaboard. Innocent people die daily on the Cape Flats and at taxi ranks because of guns allegedly supplied by clients Pete Mihalik defended. Somehow the middle class don’t make the connection.
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[OPINION] SA voters are moving beyond party loyalty: they want delivery
South African voters are worried about how their country is being run. Most still support the ANC but in far fewer numbers.
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[ANALYSIS] How Africa’s badly built roads can be fixed
Smart roads in Africa could help reduce the impact of flooding and other disasters that affect rural communities.
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[ANALYSIS] #MeToo in India is changing how technology is used to fight injustice
The #MeToo movement is rising in India and is largely being played out on social media.
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[OPINION] ANC will go to polls with only one major asset: Cyril Ramaphosa
The ANC has lost so much support among its traditional voters it's now forced to look beyond them to retain power.
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[OPINION] SA jobs summit failed to tackle the hard issues
South Africa's job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
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[OPINION] In post-Khashoggi Saudi, a chance to fill a moral void
Dozens of Western executives have cancelled their attendance at the investor conference nicknamed “Davos in the Desert”.
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[OPINION] HHP and the cultural stigma of depression
Haji Mohamed Dawjee says the haunting cultural stigma of depression has no season. It sticks around, rain or shine, it has your bags packed and ready for the inevitable guilt trip.
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[ANALYSIS] New Finance Minister postpones tough decisions
Tito Mboweni has chosen to walk a tightrope rather than face tough choices about cutting expenditure or raising taxes.
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[ANALYSIS] Cartoons an important voice of dissent, but they can also be divisive
Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
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[OPINION] Pik Botha: Obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid
The sympathetic take on Pik Botha as a man of peace and a frustrated democrat is a travesty.
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[OPINION] Democratic Alliance plays populist immigration card
Widespread concerns about the levels of immigration in South Africa make the issue appealing to voters across the economic and racial spectrum.
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[OPINION] The state of South African media in 2018
Sanef chairperson Mahlatse Mahlase says the media industry has a lot to do if the dream of meaningful democracy is to be truly realised.
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[OPINION] Why journalists in South Africa should do some self-reflection
South Africans have a right to know why the lapses at 'Sunday Times' occurred and why those that spoke up against them were silenced.
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[ANALYSIS] To eliminate TB we need imagination and ambition
Professor Madhukar Pai says the fact that we are still using century-old tools to tackle the biggest killer infection betrays a complete lack of ambition.
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[OPINION] If not you, then who?
Lisa Joshua Sonn says if we all participated in good-old-fashioned neighbourliness, we could change the world, one life at a time.
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[OPINION] Cheryl Zondi: #MeToo, one year later, we’re on to you
Haji Mohamed Dawjee looks at where we are in the week of the #MeToo movement’s first anniversary.
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[ANALYSIS] Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms
It's vital for academics in South Africa to start asking deep questions that examine what decolonialism could look like in their teaching.
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[OPINION] World Bank’s optimism about global poverty misses the point
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
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[OPINION] Pik Botha and Namibia: Ambiguities and contradictions
Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa's occupation of Namibia, but in the end, helped end both.
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[OPINION] Understanding complex ties between African countries and China matters
The complex relationship between Africa and China has become even more complicated this year.
