WHY DEBATE ON CITY’S ‘GREAT WALL’ STANDS ON SHAKY GROUND

Masonwabe Sokoyi|Published

Cape Town resident Masonwabe Sokoyi examines the critical debate around the City’s controversial plan to erect a wall in parts of the N2 and R300 highways.

Ballots can’t break the machine: How ANC hardwired itself into State

Dugan Brown|Published

As electoral support wanes, its instinct may be to tighten its grip, to ensure that even in defeat it remains structurally central.

Devastating Limpopo, Mpumalanga floods mark a turning point

Zweli Mkhize|Published

When municipal infrastructure is not maintained regularly, even predictable rainfall events can escalate into humanitarian crises, resulting in many lives lost.

Why SA’s water woes could be worse than power cuts

Roelof Bezuidenhout|Published

With the best sites already taken up, building new big storage dams and then pumping water over vast distances to where it is needed, has become hopelessly expensive. ...

Ulwimi lwenkobe: That is the language every South African youth should speak

Simthembile Xeketwana|Published

African languages are still struggling as subjects and as languages of learning and teaching in our higher education sector.

Student protests signal systems failure, not discipline problem

Busisiwe Madikizela-Theu|Published

The question is why unmet basic needs like funding, housing, food are treated primarily as security threats rather than governance failures

Student protests a symbol of fractured education landscape

Abongile Quthu|Published

Yes, it is protest season—because students are turned away, and their hope refuses to fade or be redirected. All they ask for is access. Access. Access.

Ramaphosa's SONA must go beyond promises in reassuring South Africans

Nkosikhulule Nyembezi|Published

The address might not be especially inspiring insofar as it connects the past to the future. That is not the emphasis of the expectations of many citizens.

Why SA can ill-afford to ignore food insecurity ticking-time bomb

Riedewhaan Allie|Published

The hope is expressed that the government would significantly increase social grants and pensions to assist the millions of families who are experiencing food insecurity. ...

Economic exclusion of youth will only result in more chaos, instabilities

Naledi Ramontja|Published

South Africa requires labour-absorbing growth, not only growth in GDP terms. Ultimately, South Africa faces a defining policy choice

How a new funding model for scholar transport can ensure basic education rights

Patience Nombeko Mbava|Published

While the number of learner transport beneficiaries has been increasing, the provision of learner transport has not been close to addressing those in need

How post-apartheid ‘order’ entrenches chaos, disregard for black lives

Pumlani Majavu|Published

We can see its faithful reproduction in normalised practices of the state and in the day-to-day actions of people in the country.

Access denied: Academic exclusion makes education far-fetched dream for students

Abongile Quthu|Published

Education is paramount, we yearn for it because we are capable, because we are ready.

How U. S. foreign policy under Trump erodes legitimacy in the Global South

Dugan Brown|Published

At the heart of Trump’s foreign policy lies a belief that tariffs are tools of discipline rather than instruments of economic regulation.

How ANC gravy train suddenly silenced DA's 'sharp tongue'

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

If anything, the DA has lived up to the meaning of the saying: ‘power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’.

US political ‘checkmate’ against Cuba is doomed to fail

Fatima Swartz|Published

Is the US's aggressive approach towards Cuba a sign of desperation? This article explores the implications of Trump's diplomacy and the resilience of the Cuban people. ...

Wildfires, Limpopo-Mpumalanga floods may just be the beginning

Mahlako Mashabela|Published

Let us act – because the cost of waiting is a future we cannot afford.

Why regulating scholar transport industry will not stop deadly accidents

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

The regulations have always been there, but drivers simply refuse to adhere because enforcement is weak if it exists at all.

DA'S DION GEORGE'S FUTURE HANGS IN BALANCE

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

Hours before announcing his resignation, our editorial detailed how George will find it intolerable to remain in the party after his career-ending allegations against ...