Our history of violence accumulates into the present and taints the future, too. There must be decisive action against all political murders.

We need a searching examination of our many complex problems, including what exactly took place during the July riots.

Thousands of people who lost their jobs as a result of the unrest are feeling the full brunt of a lack of income and many families are struggling to find the supplies they previously got from local shops.

The most highly mutated COVID-19 variant yet is now circulating in most of the country.

Centralised control of public administration has delivered a civil service that can shrug off accountability and ignore the real needs of citizens, who are treated as ‘customers’.

Decades-old unresolved racial tensions fueled anew by the killings in Phoenix in KwaZulu-Natal are threatening a fragile relationship between the township and its neighbours.

As the regime meets demands for democracy with violence, activists and ordinary people affirm a resolute commitment to continuing resistance, even as they are murdered and injured.

In their ruling that Jacob Zuma is guilty of contempt of the Constitutional Court, the justices have honoured the letter and spirit of both the country’s founding document and their institution.

Sparked by the death of Thabani Nkomonye, protests in eSwatini quickly escalated to encompass the bigger issue of the lack of democracy when it comes to elected government.

Not allowing scouts and analysts into the stadiums has affected professional football and altered the ways in which players are analysed.

In the Mozambican province wracked by a violent insurgency, the convenient labelling of those rising up against the predatory elite paints a picture that is far from reality.

A sharp increase in the number of social grant recipients after the introduction of the special grant during the pandemic has exacerbated the strained grant payment system.

The Legal Practice Council wants to suspend the attorney with bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety who could not get the mental health support he needed and eventually swore at a judge.

Like racial abuse, the ingrained use of rape as sporting terminology is unacceptable and all those involved in sport need to stop condoning such language.

Events of the past week prove that the Zondo commission investigating state capture cannot conclude its work without Jacob Zuma’s honest testimony.

A union has launched a campaign against streaming giant Spotify, which pays artists too little to earn a living while raking in billions for its chief executive and investors.

Jobless people in the country’s most impoverished province join the growing social grant queues before dawn on empty stomachs, having run out of food for the month.

A curated show at a former corner shop in Brixton, Johannesburg, offers a glimpse into the lives of a Chinese migrant couple who made apartheid South Africa home.