HIV treatment programmes are in trouble
Sara Gon and Makone Maja discuss the impact of the loss of US funding that supported HIV programmes, the employment equity targets, as well as
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Bring back the Population Registration Act!
How can anyone be sure their employees are legally of the race and gender they claim to be? Imagine you’re responsible for human resources at a medium-sized firm. The company employs exactly 49 people. You didn’t want this job. You
Freedom Day: making a meal of it
With a gut-feel logic that it usually seems impolite to question, it is often suggested that the poor, the needy, the jobless, “can’t eat the vote”. Democracy, by implication – “freedom” in a setting defined by a long history of
Of popes and politicians
The passing of a pope – head of the world’s largest Christian denomination, and uniquely, also the head of a sovereign state – invariably attracts a great deal of media attention. So, it has been with the death on Easter
Unburden this!
The slogan “Unburdened by what has been” that epitomised Kamala Harris’s US presidential campaign is also relevant here. While politicians exploit what has been, few SA jobseekers link “unburdened” to aspirations. The bumpy budget debacle has enhanced our political landscape
The South African evil that we ignore
There was a terrible story in last week’s Sunday Times. I read it and, since it was straightforward except for some details, I understood it. But it was so shocking I had to read it twice more to make sure.
The South African Executive: A Shrine to Dead Ideologies
When a government begins to resemble a corporate year-end function—replete with inflated titles, overlapping responsibilities, and far too many people doing far too little—it ceases to be a cabinet and becomes a congregation. South Africa’s executive, now swollen to 77
The Caravan Zig-zags On
Donald Trump, as usual, is monopolising the news, generating more heat than light. So I'll try to keep this as brief and sane as possible. In my last piece on Trump, I ended with a brief addendum to include the
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Martin van Staden dismissed my criticism of the Index of Race Law as “vibe-based”. I am not sure what this means, but was disappointed that he used this to avoid dealing with the substance of the criticism. In