Sindile Vabaza

Over the past few years, South Africa has struggled under conditions of weak growth, rising unemployment and mounting public debt. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic,

A rather unpleasant effect of our hyper-consciousness to race is that even ideas and policies most people don’t agree with are given lots of room

The Springboks are the clearest example of why institutions matter in this country. Even as social media and legacy media debate around “token” players and

There has been a deluge of media coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In particular some of the reporting seems to suggest that Ukrainians

In 2000, per capita income in South Africa was on a par with the global average and twice that of middle-income countries. But 20 years

I believe it is inevitable that, with the continuing economic crises engulfing South Africa, the government will look for ways to relieve public pressure and

In an article written on the 18th of November 2020 on the University of the Witwatersrand’s website, William Gumede, an associate professor in the School

Over the past two weeks I have been reading George R R Martin’s novel, A Clash of Kings, and watching the series that it spawned,

I recently visited a distant relative’s house in rural South Africa in search of a live-in helper who was urgently needed by someone I know

I learnt the best lessons about how human beings respond to their surroundings when I lived in Kenilworth Upper in Cape Town. Specifically, I lived