We sometimes gloss over the signs that progress continues, and that we’re still living at the best time ever to be alive. As we end

This article, one of several selected pieces being republished this month, first appeared on 15 April. In any environment, crime is a burden on business.

South Africa ranks as one of the most unsafe places in the world, with alarmingly high rates of intimate partner violence and sexual assault.   President

Let me start by acknowledging Martin van Staden’s thoughtful response to my original opinion piece advocating the reintroduction of the death penalty. Though his reply,

US president-elect Donald Trump views countries in mercantilist terms as competing empires, as they were centuries ago. Politicians usually moderate their rhetoric once an election

Christmas is the season of goodwill to all men but this year there is a list of South African men in positions of power for

Two days after Christmas a woman and her recently matriculated son sat patiently in our small waiting room while I finished up my Saturday morning clinic. 

Politicians are not like us. They don’t shop like us. They don’t celebrate the festive season like us. They need to learn. There are a

There was no great public outcry for the drafting and adoption of the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act, no groundswell of parents demanding that

In an era where human rights are championed as universal and fundamental, we must ask ourselves: how far have we truly come in overcoming religious