Rugby Africa, the continent’s governing body, voted against South Africa, making the betrayal even more hurtful but not surprising.

Bodies are still missing after heavy rainfall in KwaZulu-Natal caused massive flooding. Now distraught families are left to pick through the wreckage of their lives.

Sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s deadliest disease has been working under cover.

Nothing in the State of the Nation Address signified that the president and his administration know how to win back the trust of the impoverished who feel let down by them.

Intent on extending Koeberg’s life, Gwede Mantashe has silenced the project’s opposing voice. It is time to remove the National Nuclear Regulator from the minister’s control.

The PSL keeps on stumbling from one blunder to the next. And while its leaders can be replaced, the question is whether the damage they are causing can be fixed.

Conversations with ordinary South Africans of all ages reveal a widespread distrust in the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines and the real need for accurate information.

Women participants at a recent march against gender-based violence spoke of how they not only experience violence from men, but also indifference from the law.

Recent elections and searing testimony at the Human Rights Commission inquiry into the July riots illuminate the collapse of an emancipatory vision.

COVID-19 has disproportionately affected women, who have suffered more job losses and greater emotional distress. Yet few can access the mental health help they need.

Many residents on the East Rand did not know who their ward councillor candidates were and instead voted for a party they felt they at least knew.

One of the financial aid scheme’s policies is denying tens of thousands of students funding in their final year of study, forcing them to drop out.

Some residents are resigned to voting on the slim chance that it changes their circumstances, others are undecided and those without identity documents feel hopeless.

South Africa’s once grand hopes have collapsed into pettiness, cynicism and a lack of emancipatory vision. Renewal can only come from a democratic reconfiguration of the popular.

Institutions of learning should act decisively against those in their midst who act in a homophobic manner. A teachers’ union has taken up the cause on behalf of a bi-gender educator.

As South Africa gears up for the local government elections on 1 November, disgruntled voters in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni say they have little reason to cast their ballots.

As one of South Africa’s most loved house music DJ duos, the artists have been at the heart of the music scene’s evolution. And through it all, they’ve kept the people dancing.

As three activists walked free after six months in jail, it was again clear that the ANC, in cahoots with the police and justice system, keeps grinding popular dissent against the rock of repression.