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Unlike the ANC, the core values of the freedom fighters do not change with each leader it elects (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images) The EFF’s principles are unshakeable ...
Local government elections taking place in Gauteng, residents vote for their chosen councilers - Photo' Delwyn Verasamy Governance re-imagined: Is politics without parties possible?
In 2016, ahead of his 85th birthday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu penned an opinion piece for The Washington Post on the topic of euthanasia. Challenging the dominant church view, he wrote that “dying ...
The windows remain broken, and Ramaphosa seems to be signalling that he will keep looking the other way. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) Tacit acceptance of unethical behaviour will be this ...
Zuma has become symbol of South Africa’s deep-seated problems but, if we are to move on, we must lose our obsession with him ...
I am thinking of Nosicelo Mtebeni, a final-year law student from Fort Hare University in East London, who was gruesomely killed and dismembered by her boyfriend after an altercation. That this ...
The government’s response to lockdown trampled on the rights and dignity of residents in informal settlements. Building township economies: From top-down planning to enabling development ...
International Youth Day, 12 August, is a day commemorating young people and bringing attention to the myriad issues they face, as well as highlighting the potential they have to transform society.
There’s an iconic scene in the movie Network when Peter Finch flips the script of his news report and screams into the camera, “I don’t have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad ...
In the past five years, the South African debate on climate change and ecological restoration has been elevated to one of the main state agendas. The role played by young people among many others has ...
“Human mobility is not an invasion. It is not an intrusion. It is a human reality as old as humankind that we, as responsible leaders, have to learn to manage,” said William Lacy Swing, of the ...
July 2021 was a harrowing month for all who love South Africa. As soon as the dust settled on the looting and unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, we started trying to make sense of the senseless ...