The former Energy Minister must account for the 2016 sale of strategic fuel reserves, writes Judith February.

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.

We have almost become inured to the ANC-led government’s abuse of power, writes Judith February.

With the news that the future of the District Six Museum is in peril, Judith February says that within our deeply divided and scarred society, it’s imperative to ask what matters to us.

Is it any wonder that there’s a cynicism when we hear of government’s trite promises to ‘fight corruption’, asks Judith February.

Some may say that the inability to fix what is broken is an accurate summation of the state of our country. For the lack of care is pervasive and serious, writes Judith February.

Quite how the ANC hopes to improve its results in next year's local government elections is unclear when it seems so unfit for purpose, writes Judith February.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane seems to spend much of her time defending herself and her office in one way or another, writes Judith February.

For a ‘new sense of accountability’ as encouraged by President Ramaphosa, we will need not only the state to reinvent and remake itself, but more specifically, the ANC, writes Judith February.

South Africans are simply tired of talk on everything from the economy, to better services for the poor and acting on corruption, writes Judith February.

The generation of Madiba, John Lewis and Andrew Mlangeni knew how to keep constant the principles which informed their activism, writes Judith February.

We have to do more to ensure that the nexus between government, business, civil society and citizen groups is strengthened, writes Judith February.

The City of Cape Town is well-known for its brutality and mostly ill-conceived plans to deal with those who occupy land, writes Judith February.

If we are prepared to make the ‘difficult and painful’ political decisions Tito Mboweni talks about, there may be some light at the end of this long, dark tunnel, writes Judith February.

The worst is coming and wide-scale public education and benevolent ‘policing’ within key areas should be the order of the day, writes Judith February.

The clear messaging that now has to come from government is that the pandemic is not yet at its peak and it is deadly and dangerous, writes Judith February.

The interconnectedness of global life in 2020 means that the days of living in privileged bubbles of security now seem forever over, writes Judith February.

With the announcement that religious gatherings may resume, President Ramaphosa has undermined his government’s cause and the price will be all of ours to pay, writes Judith February.