SA: the patient that wants to be cured
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Fighting tyranny and funding freedom | Makone Maja
Nicholas Lorimer chats to Makone Maja about her recent trip to Ghana, the fight for freedom in Africa, Pan-Africanism, and foreign funding of NGOs. Let’s get over our Africa fatigue and be courageous Africans instead Please check out our new
Do we truly want to grow?
Last week, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Lesetja Kganyago, asked those holding power in the country, the vested interests in government, and those close to them, if they truly wanted the country to grow.
Two in three young South Africans can’t find work
The rate of joblessness among South Africans aged between 15 and 24 reached 62.8% in the second quarter of 2026, a percentage-point rise of 1.9 on the quarter and 0.6 on the year.
The keffiyeh conundrum
The keffiyeh is worn by many Western academics and feminists as a symbol of liberation. But its history and the societies from which it comes tell a very different story.
MPs should scrap new water legislation for threat it poses to economy – IRR
The National Water Amendment Bill of 2026 poses risks to agriculture, and the wider economy, which could imperil food security and worsen deprivation.
Funding journalism: the tender mercies of the state
Styli Charalambous says only the state can fix journalism’s “market failure”, but the state’s two journalism funding efforts produced a propaganda organ and a Gupta laundromat.
PW and the assassin
The apartheid state’s assassination of ANC chief representatives abroad has been raised in recent testimony before the Khampepe Commission of inquiry into the sabotaging of prosecutions that should have followed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) after 2003.