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 ...

Municipal elections present platform to scrutinise electoral system

Yonela Toshḙ-Mlambo|Published

Our proportional electoral system and parliamentary-presidential mixture system complicates the majoritarian government thus having a majority doesn’t always necessarily ...

Venezuela's US-sponsored crisis a test for global sovereignty

Ali Ridha Khan|Published

That the same international system can celebrate peace-making in one register while normalising extraterritorial seizure in another reveals the real hierarchy at ...

Attempted coupes in Africa call for counter-coup standby force

Adeoye O. Akinola|Published

The military will always be tempted to seize opportunities when misgovernance, repression of civil liberties, electoral manipulation, and rising insecurity create ...

How Mothibi can succeed as the new prosecutions boss

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

Mothibi will only win when he delivers for ordinary citizens, not when protecting powerful individuals doing all they can to avoid facing justice.

Emergency-level action is what youth expects from ANC's January 8 address

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

Mr President, when you stand at Moruleng Stadium this Saturday, you face a choice. You can repeat familiar rhetoric and hope the country remains patient. Or speak ...

Venezuela will once again expose flaws in UN Security Council

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

Venezuela is likely to become another wasted crisis, resembling events that followed when the US forced regime changes in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

That simple, terrifying question still awaits new graduates, matrics

Nyaniso Qwesha|Published

What we lack is not ideas. It is infrastructure. Not energy, but coordination. Not willingness, but pathways.

Gun-totting Bitou deputy mayor Nokuzola Kolwapi deliberately missed the point

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

In a country where gun violence is the cause of the majority of the daily murders, surely a deputy mayor should be the last person wielding a firearm, let alone ...

ANC continues to expose DA's little influence in GNU

Siyavuya Mzantsi|Published

We have previously stated the DA entered the coalition government to help the ANC remain in power when the voters rejected it.

Why church bells should ring beyond 16 Days campaign

Siki Dlanga|Published

This time the reverends rang church bells to stand with victims of Gender-Based Violence, to repent on behalf of broken masculinity, to say we can no longer continue ...

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.