We are responsible for needless deaths
We cannot expect politicians to take responsibility for carnage on the roads or gender-based violence
Editorial: Water must be 2025’s political priority
The water crisis is severe, but it is not unfixable. The blueprint is there — what is required is the political will to make it work.
Editorial: The SACP should talk people, not power
The SACP is asking important questions of itself but, like the other parties busy with political activities this week — and those threatening to walk out of the government of national unity — it should also be asking itself what material benefit its decisions will bring to those it will be asking to vote for the party come the 2026 local government elections
Ramaphosa must be pushed to act on Thembi Simelane
Ramaphosa must, through public demand or GNU nudging, be pressured into severing the tether that still connects him to agenda-based decision-making
Phala Phala: The power and the peril of judicial review
The stakes are high in the Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF’s) bid to compel the National Assembly to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa on charges flowing from the theft of foreign currency concealed at his farm.
Let’s shed our mining myopia
South Africa condemns using hunger as a weapon of war in Gaza but back home the police are allowed to starve zama zamas
Will COP29 deliver for Africa as Trump looms over climate finance talks?
African nations are seeking $1.3 trillion in climate funds as fears grow over Trump’s potential impact on global climate finance commitments
Water widens the class divide
We’re driven by the hope that one day the rural areas we visit will have running taps like our own Joburg offices
Tuck shop poisonings are preventable
We owe it to every child, to every family, to do what we can to uphold the laws that protect them
Dancing on eggshells or Brics?
South Africa is not drifting away from its non-aligned stance
