Author: Jo Mangaliso Mdhlela

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Editorial

Constitution sets the seal on equality

The country’s constitution, signed into law by the late and former president Nelson Mandela on December 10, 1996, is embraced by many South Africans – but i... Read more.
Opinion, Sports

Disarray at Safa symptomatic of a sick body

There were signposts along the road pointing to impending implosion, and a growing concern of alleged corruption and malfeasance at the South African Football A... Read more.
Editorial

Post-apartheid administrators have allowed their greed to collapse the country’s railway system

Is it not strange why some people remember apartheid, yet we all know, or ought to know, it was an abomination, and should not ever be glorified, even in the fa... Read more.
Columnists

‘Black is beautiful’ should be a rallying cry for good governance

“Black is beautiful” was a rallying cry of the late 1960s and early 1970s, popularised by rising black liberation struggle activists of the time, and would ... Read more.
Columnists

Virgin Mary: is it fact, or mere fiction weaponised against women?

Does holiness in the eyes of the church depend, among other things, on virginity and subservience – the inclination not to indulgence in sexual activities ... Read more.
Columnists

SA yearns for Messiah to lead nation out of valley of dry bones

Waste, barren land is not what South Africans hope for as they think of their future. In the words of the muse, we all, as citizens of this country, look forwar... Read more.
Columnists

Man up Mr President, and lead us into a promised land

Reuters, an international news agency, recently reported that the French government had embarked on a process of stretching its human thinking capacity beyond u... Read more.
Columnists

What’s left of ANC is a shell of the glorious liberation movement

If you listen to South Africans expressing their concerns about the state of governance – be it in beer halls, shebeens, taverns, business forums, taxi ranks,... Read more.
Editorial

Decades of missteps tell tale of two Cities.

There is a level of plausibility in the assertion that the pangs of politics can sharply be felt through the mundane, the humdrum and the ordinary if we only op... Read more.