Nurses on the Front Line and the Tembisa Ten

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‘It’s important that we immediately suspend the CEOs of these hospitals. The MEC of Health in Gauteng should resign and at the very least she

How we elect our leaders – time for a rethink?

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Mmusi Maimane, head of the One South Africa (OSA) movement and erstwhile leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), confirmed this weekend that he would be

President Cyril Ramaphosa: the most effective ‘RET’ leader of all

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Last week, a Business Day editorial commended President Cyril Ramaphosa for the ‘important structural reforms’ being implemented under his watch. These reforms, it said, included

Eskom: Not much can be done ‘at once’

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has cut short an overseas trip to return to deal with the Eskom crisis. How this will help solve the crisis, which

A worrying obstacle on the road to post-ANC recovery

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South Africans who have the most to offer are the very ones the country is most likely to lose to emigration, according to new research.

Green hydrogen is a boondoggle

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President Cyril Ramaphosa gets super-excited about green hydrogen. Back in the real world, however, green hydrogen is an inefficient pipe dream that won’t reach maturity

Not a crisis of inertia, a crisis of choices

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Last week, Business Day ran an editorial entitled ‘Ramaphosa’s crisis of inertia’.  On the one hand, it claims that Ramaphosa has shown some unabashedly reformist

Scoring post-colonial outcomes

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As the Second World War marked the beginning of the colonial era’s demise, the Russia-Ukraine war is a pivot point that should inspire a fresh

South Africa’s small nuclear reactors

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Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) are in vogue now, and it so happens that South Africa is a world leader in this nuclear technology. “Modular” means

Pride flags and Pride Flags – At a school near you

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It goes something like, “If you question flying the Pride flag at any school, in any way, at any time, you’re a homophobe”. Usually on