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Free State family seeks answers from daycare after toddler’s death
The family of 20-month-old Naledi Rapuleng is demanding answers and accountability after the toddler died from severe head injuries allegedly sustained while in the...
A generation at risk: Why South Africa must tighten gambling laws
The numbers are troubling. During the 2025-26 financial year, the helpline run by the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation recorded 5 199 SOS calls...
Gaza evidence trail leads straight to global complicity
On August 25, our government submitted a new dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) panel of judges to verify compliance by Israel...
When saints prop up broken health systems
Spend long enough working in public health and you will eventually meet every type of person.
You meet the idealists, the pragmatists, the empire builders,...
Let’s prioritise fixing what we have built before it breaks
South Africa’s municipalities have, in fact, achieved a great deal since 1994, even if that word rarely appears in the debate about local government.
In...
Reporting GBV can be tantamount to reporting crime to criminals
In an early chapter of my memoir, Unfathered, I write about being a child, calling the police in desperation, hoping they’d defuse a violent...
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It has been a tough week for the ANC.
The mighty Khongolose failed to submit its councillor candidate list, citing technical glitches on the IEC’s...
Zero alcohol laws need more than political resolve
South Africa’s proposed zero blood alcohol limit raises a question that extends beyond what motorists may drink before driving: How seriously does the country...
Pitso’s back — and he’s already shaking up Bafana
The ink on his contract has hardly dried yet new Bafana Bafana coach Pitso Mosimane is making bold moves and stamping his authority.
He is...
Mystery surrounds RAF’s R142m corruption case
The R142-million corruption investigation against the Road Accident Fund’s (RAF) panel of lawyers has been transferred to the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks)...
