The challenge for South Africans is to assess everything and anything on its merits. It is to understand that things are seldom black and white, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

The media, if it is to play its role as the “guards of the guards”, must start taking its role seriously and avoid the temptation of going for the low hanging fruit, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

Whether Pravin Gordhan stays or goes might address the agenda of some political party or faction, but if it does nothing for our ailing economy, then it is hollow, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

If electricity’s unreliability has caused us inconvenience, we must shudder to think what water unavailability will do to humanity, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

Alcohol is too much of a health and social problem for us to play ‘cool kids’ who say nothing negative about binge drinking, says Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says that South Africans are hyper-sensitive about race and are quick to conclude that bad behaviour is racism when it can be explained as some people being plain old-fashioned hoodlums who enjoy visiting misery on anyone they encounter.

South Africans need more action over talk, and the Guptas answering for allegations against them is a good way to show that, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

Anyone who able to is considering going off Eskom's energy grid - and that's a sure sign of a potential failed state, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

We can't just talk about Israel as an apartheid state but pretend Zambia's jailing of homosexuals isn't, write Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moyo.

To reduce transformation to replacing whites with blacks and women with men is to have missed the whole point, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

South Africa privileges being polite over being forthright, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

The EFF and its counterparts' responses to the Springboks tells us something about human beings and their tendency to stay in the past, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

The Democratic Alliance needs to choose policies before it picks leaders, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

Winning is better than losing, but intentionally creating a winning culture is best, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

It would be kind of the outgoing Joburg mayor to not assume that we suffer from collective amnesia, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

The Fees Must Fall activist is at once an example of our hollow democracy and how successful violence as a language of persuading the state has become, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

A vibrant and vigilant civil society, not political parties, is the greatest asset to democracy, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.

Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says all those trying to cast former President Jacob Zuma as a hero should just stop.