Opinion
SAFA can take leaf out of Springboks, market Bafana properly
Bafana Bafana are playing one of their biggest matches tonight since the 2010 FIFA World Cup, when they faced Mexico in the opening game...
Charmza: Our lawmakers deserve a pat on the back
Our lawmakers deserve a pat on the back for eventually getting the ball rolling with the ad-hoc committee to investigate the unprecedented allegations made...
Moegoe: Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
Celebrity cop, KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi seems to be getting drunk on the fame he has been enjoying since his gutsy...
PAC has awoken, and is now ready to lead
Rip van Winkle slept through a revolution and woke up to a new world. He found a society transformed: new methods of struggle, new...
Cholota case and Madlanga lay bare inadequacies in some laws
In 1994, South Africa emerged from decades of apartheid tyranny into a new democratic dispensation, a beacon of hope led by statesman Nelson Mandela...
Charmza: Julius Malema
Julius Malema, long a magnet for controversy, is now scapegoated in a legal circus overseen by Magistrate Twanet Olivier.
Five-gun convictions land on Malema, while...
Constitution does not represent values of SA people
It can be argued – and rightly so, even by leaders like President Cyril Ramaphosa who was at the forefront of writing it –...
Moegoe
Kaizer Chiefs new signing Khanyisa Mayo decided to fly through to the goal line and ‘unscore’ a certain goal and thereby scooped the moegoe...
Mandela’s grandson refuses to bow to Israel
The Mandela name is recognised the world over and associated with the noble fight for freedom, equality and dignity of the oppressed. Nelson Mandela...
Charmza
The time for endorsing war criminals seems to have come to an end.
That is if the commendable silent protest by the United Nations General...
Moegoe
It’s melodramatic for Patriotic Alliance leader, Gayton McKenzie, to threaten the ANC that should his sidekick, Kenny Kunene, not be brought back as transport...
Does a 2am eviction uphold human rights and forge belongingness?
Professor Mosibudi Mangena’s September 21, 2025 column in the Sunday World titled, “Declaring ‘South Africa belongs to all who live in it” is stupid...
Adopt and preserve a river in celebration of World Rivers Day
Annually, on the fourth Sunday of September, the world’s waterways – our rivers – are put in the spotlight and global agenda as we...
Spare the Bloem football fanatics the pain, please
When Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie announced that his eldest son Calvin Le John bought the status of SuperSport United and...
Nation deserves to know what’s really happening with the president
News entities such as newspapers would generally stay clear of a story to which they deem to have been beaten to by a rival...
Ruling on surnames opens door to foreign takeover
The Constitutional Court has opened a door that no one can close. With one ruling, it has handed the surnames of South Africa to...
Charmza: ANC councillors standing up to Gwede Mantashe
The ANC councillors who gathered at FNB Stadium for a “roll-call” must be commended for standing up to bully, national chair Gwede Mantashe.
The don...
Moegoe: Solly Mapaila
Newspapers invest a lot of resources in digging up news that the powerful would prefer to remain out of the public domain.
Instead of keeping...
Constitutional Court’s ruling on surnames opens door to foreign takeover
The Constitutional Court has opened a door that no one can close. With one ruling, it has handed the surnames of South Africa to...
Declaring SA ‘belongs to all who live in it’ is stupid...
I am not aware of any nation in the world that declares in its constitution that its country “belongs to all who live in...
