Editorial
Sona 2026 – Rising tide must lift us all
The president started by framing his State of the Nation Address 2026, and the significance of past historic events that have shaped our present....
Ramaphosa’s plans are ambitious, but delivery will be the ultimate test
On Thursday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a State of the Nation Address (Sona), and for the first time in years, the speech was...
The president must show Gayton McKenzie the door
Gayton McKenzie is a brash, tactless, foot-in-mouth politician who has no business holding a position as important as sports, arts and culture minister.
Just last...
Evidence of crooked police officials plentiful
It was supposed to be an ordinary Sunday, on July 6 generally a slow news day, when KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi decided...
Dropout rate of male pupils is reason for grave concern
The Class of 2025 did exceptionally well, achieving a pass rate of 88% in the National Senior Certificate, representing an increase of 0.7 percentage...
Why the nation has a stake in the ANC NGC
The diagnosis delivered by Fikile Mbalula this week should reverberate far beyond the confines of the national general council (NGC) at the Birchwood Hotel...
The cost of missing dockets and delayed justice
The ongoing enquiry into Adv. Andrew Chauke’s fitness to hold office as the director of public prosecutions (DPP) for South Gauteng has exposed troubling...
Chief Justice must stop acting like a politician
South Africa is lauded the world over for its robust constitutional order and a progressive Constitution. All that is good unless your name is...
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...
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...
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...
SA’s women still held back by a hidden dompas: male prejudice Â
SA’s women still held back by a hidden dompas: male prejudice Â
Today is the last day of Women’s Month 2025. As has become custom over...
Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi must stay in his laneÂ
Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s inflammatory assertion that raising police salaries and meeting other union demands are the primary drivers of the crime crisis represents a...
Maponya Mall attack shows we cannot afford to be complacent
Maponya Mall attack shows we cannot afford to be complacent
It has been documented in history that great empires don’t just fall overnight, nor does their...
Unchecked digital media is weakening the Fourth EstateÂ
Unchecked digital media is weakening the Fourth EstateÂ
Eighteenth century British politician Edmund Burke is credited with coining the term Fourth Estate in reference to...
Billions returned to Treasury while service delivery suffersÂ
“The good news is that we are back to 41 clean audits... However, that makes up 15% of the municipalities across the country. I...
With friends like these, I am with Palestine; go ahead and...
I nearly lived all my life under apartheid. The 1994 political dispensation served as a reprieve granted to a prisoner on death row, sparing...
Hubris and insolence replacing reason in South African politicsÂ
With the situation in the country being as concerning as it is, the president of the country would be expected to invite leaders of...
The wheels of justice seem to be turning a tad faster...
A colleague mentioned an oft-repeated refrain that South Africa is a movie, with the twist that we are all wittingly or otherwise part of...
Let’s place NHI at the top of the transformation agendaÂ
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi last week reiterated his call for legislators to use public health facilities when they are ill.Â
The quality of service...
SA does not need a tainted police minister, ever
Today marks precisely a week since KwaZulu-Natal’s most senior policeman and one of the most decorated and revered men in blue, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi,...
MK denying its voters their voice in Parliament
Something that should be of greater concern bubbled to the surface and got as much attention as debris washed ashore by a stream of...
Whiteness has never been a burden on anyone in SA
So, the first batch of Afrikaners to take up the offer of the megalomaniac across the pond, and flee imaginary genocide and persecution have...
SA must stand firm against IMF dictates
By Mthunzi Mdwaba
For years, I have warned against South Africa’s policy implementation failures. We are having to grapple with all the consequences of this...
Why must you be the rotten apple that spoils the bag,...
Trust the palookas at Safa to do everything in their power to be that proverbial fly in the ointment even if there is no...
These scumbags leave police no choice but to fight fire with...
Not that it ever gets much easier for our men and women in blue, but this has been a particularly busy, tough, and, one...
Well done, Mr President, for calling Donald Trump’s bluff
Fasten your seatbelts even tighter; this is going to be one hell of a bumpy ride given the madman at the helm.
Donald Trump took...
