Fixing Joburg: put the city first
Johannesburg is facing significant social, economic and infrastructural challenges that demand an energetic, decisive and capable mayor who can halt the city’s decline and pursue a transformative developmental agenda.
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News Focus: donkey dies for settler nationalism
Violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank is set to reach record levels this year, as human rights groups warn that they are increasingly spreading into new areas of the territory. So says the BBC in text accompanying
Dada Morero makes new friends in Joburg
In today's live show, Nicholas Lorimer and Ofentse Donald Davhie discuss the selection of council candidates, the importance of education in politicians, coalitions and Dolly Parton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCinXp0h2QQ
Another partnership, signifying nothing
The President wants credit for putting out fires his own government started, and applause for a partnership that has existed since before the Constitution.
A cancer breakthrough and the second coming of mRNA
There can be few technologies in modern history that have travelled so quickly from scientific triumph to political tribalism as mRNA.
The Yookay discovers rape is not ok
There was a bizarre story three years ago about a man who had a nasty accident.
Failure to meet “progressive realisation” of property rights key to IRR’s approach to SAHRC
Accountability, efficient service delivery and secure property rights for all South Africans are the principles on which the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has approached the South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to declare title deed and housing delivery backlogs
Reforming wasteful “free” university education
The high costs of “free” university education include dismal student completion and drop-out rates, a steady rise in student debt, and major inefficiency and corruption at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) charged with paying tuition fees and allowances