Bending BEE laws for Starlink is a costly gamble SA can ill-afford

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

If a minister uses policy discretion to rewrite BEE ownership requirements, that is not flexibility but overreach. When executive authority dilutes laws for convenience ...

LETTER: Why Geordin Hill-Lewis should challenge John Steenhuisen for DA leadership

Rozario Brown | MOUILLE POINT|Published

The mayor faces a pivotal choice: protect a friendship or uphold the integrity of the DA.

Winning battle against excessive pricing of school uniform is now within reach

Siya Makunga|Published

Market participants, parents and guardians alike are still encouraged to submit a complaint to the Commission should they suspect a school is contravening the Competition ...

Why justice is incomplete without emotional and psychological support for families affected by femicide

Lethabo Motloung|Published

Current policing and judicial processes lack sensitivity to the psychosocial needs of the bereaved during investigation, trial and post-conviction

Public discourse should urgently imagine life beyond ANC

Yonela Toshḙ-Mlambo|Published

South African citizens long for a new polity beyond nationalist informed polity in various iterations- political and economic nationalist

Why investing in gender-based violence prevention is essential

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

If we are willing to invest in what actually works, we can shift the trajectory of a country exhausted by trauma and fear

Urgency is the key factor missing in the fight against climate change

Mahlako Mashabela|Published

Time for reports and recommendations has passed. Let us act – because the cost of waiting is a future we cannot afford.

16 Days Campaign | Witnessing my mother's abuse was my abuse

OWN Correspondent|Published

My mother wasn’t just surviving; she was a warrior absorbing blow after blow so they wouldn’t land on me.

Let us unite to save our democracy from uncaring, greedy politicians and parties

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

We as a country cannot afford to fail the countless leaders who paid the price fighting apartheid for this democracy.

Preventing GVB far less costly than responding

Lesley Ann van Selm|Published

If we are willing to invest in what actually works, we can shift the trajectory of a country exhausted by trauma and fear.

Truth comes with heavy price for whistleblowers in today’s South Africa

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

The targeted execution of a protected witness pushes us past the boundary of crisis and into the territory of collapse.

Why confronting Donald Trump is essential for South Africa's sovereignty

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

The world has grown tired of him; so should the Americans. Unless he is a true reflection of that nation

16 Days Campaign | 'He sexually assaulted me despite promising my dying stepdad he would take care of us'

OWN Correspondent|Published

" I know this man was jailed; I can’t say if it was for my case or more cases, I have no clue but he was jailed. He is out now. I’ve seen him walk past me in the ...

Ekurhuleni metro police saga resembles silent collapse of public policing authority

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

EMPD scandal must not be dismissed as the work of a rogue official or a single corrupt partnership. It exposes a structural vulnerability in South Africa’s policing ...

16 Days Campaign | ‘My father raped me and nobody believed me including my mother’

OWN Correspondent|Published

Today I am a grown, strong woman who had the best aunt to help me through everything.

Why nothing will stop Trump from throwing mud at SA

Sandile Ngidi|Published

He is playing dirty so that South Africa withdraws the case lodged against Israel at the International Court of Justice

ANC's chances in the Western Cape hampered by lack of credible leadership rejuvenation

Xolisile Ngumbela|Published

Overbearing tactics run the risk of alienating communities and party members, eroding the credibility of democracy.

Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala’s testimony exposes something bigger than Tembisa Hospital looting

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

It is about the system that makes such individuals possible.

16 Days Campaign: GBV survivor tells her story

OWN Correspondent|Published

Discover the harrowing journey of a GBV survivor who found refuge at the Saartjie Baartman Centre, overcoming abuse and reclaiming her life.