No platitudes, please: Municipalities, politicians must be brutally honest about the water crisis
Citizens don’t need language that flirts around the issue. We need clear concise communications regarding the water crisis
Editorial: Control guns to stop massacres
The proliferation of illegal weapons and failure to keep violent criminals locked up will draw more tragic massacres
Editorial: The time to fire Simelane is now
Reputational damage mounts while Ramaphosa worries about the power balance in his coalition cabinet
Africa stakes its place
Cyril Ramaphosa’s trip abroad this week included arguing for Africa to be given a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council
State capture disciples still roam free
Pravin Gordhan’s earliest role as an organiser of civil resistance still carries relevance
Good teachers are undone by bad politics
While political parties bicker over who is to blame, the reality is that millions of pupils in public schools will find themselves crammed into even larger classes, vying for the attention of ill-equipped teachers
Editorial: Local level must adopt parliament’s maturity
South Africa’s seventh parliament has just started its work, and it appears to be doing so with a far more collaborative spirit — and significantly less playing to the gallery — than it did during any of the previous three terms.
Editorial: Let us all heed the AG’s words
Tsakani Maluleke is begging on our behalf, but no one is listening
Editorial | How the EFF has failed us
The party that was marked as the antidote to political stagnancy has become one of its most painful symptoms
Editorial: SA fails all of us over Zimbabwe abuses
We were proud of the country when it went to the International Court of Justice over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but it fails to speak out about ongoing oppression by Harare
