

No, negotiation, compromise and bridge-building are not a national speciality
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Mar 10, 2025
South Africa has a unique ability to build bridges and find compromises. Its political miracle in the 1990s was in the ability of people across

The Lie of the Land – a response to Nkanyiso Gumede
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . Mar 10, 2025
I wrote this article in response to a question posed by researcher Nkanyiso Gumede of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in his

North West … where nobody works
- By Kenneth Mokgatlhe wa Kgwadi
- . Mar 10, 2025
People do not work in North West Province. It’s not just that more than half the working-age population is unemployed − the government doesn’t work

Ramaphosa, not AfriForum, should be charged with treason
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 9, 2025
The Hawks are investigating dockets of high treason against AfriForum and Solidarity. This is because of their high-level meetings in Washington with Trump’s administration. They

The Budget and the Beckhams’ toaster
- By Paddi Clay
- . Mar 9, 2025
Presumably, on 12 March, the new date set for the Budget Speech, we will officially find out who won in the battle of wills between

BEE helps few, harms many: a response to Index of Race Law critics
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Mar 9, 2025
The recent News24 article, List of ‘race laws’: a tool for insight or a catalyst for misunderstanding?, published on 25 February, contained criticism of the

SA policy status quo harming black people the most
- By Gerbrandt van Heerden
- . Mar 8, 2025
After 30 years of democracy, the vast majority of black South Africans continue to languish in poverty at much higher rates than other racial groups.

Save Gauteng, fire Lesufi
- By Jordan Griffiths
- . Mar 8, 2025
There has been no greater wrecking ball to the province of Gauteng than Premier Panyaza Lesufi, who has systematically overseen its collapse across not only

Do SA politicians take countering corruption seriously?
- By Paul Hoffman
- . Mar 8, 2025
In the carefully chosen words of the Constitutional Court, “(t)here can be no gainsaying that corruption threatens to fell at the knees virtually everything we