Editorial

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 Estate  Eighteenth century British politician Edmund Burke is credited with coining the term Fourth Estate in reference to...

“The good news is that we are back to 41 clean audits... However, that makes up 15% of the municipalities across the country. I...

I nearly lived all my life under apartheid. The 1994 political dispensation served as a reprieve granted to a prisoner on death row, sparing...

With the situation in the country being as concerning as it is, the president of the country would be expected to invite leaders of...

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...

Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi last week reiterated his call for legislators to use public health facilities when they are ill.  The quality of service...

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,...

Something that should be of greater concern bubbled to the surface and got as much attention as debris washed ashore by a stream of...

So, the first batch of Afrikaners to take up the offer of the megalomaniac across the pond, and flee imaginary genocide and persecution have...

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...

Trust the palookas at Safa to do everything in their power to be that proverbial fly in the ointment even if there is no...

Not that it ever gets much easier for our men and women in blue, but this has been a particularly busy, tough, and, one...

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...

We are at the tail end of the year 2024, an eventful 12 months that will go down in history, especially politically, as a turning...

Police once again released the quarterly crime statistics this week, painting an almost despondent picture of a nation besieged no end by criminals who...

This might well turn out to be a comeback of biblical proportions — this return of the Orange Man, Donald Trump, to the seat...

We may well have been a tad slow to react to the starter gun, but as the trusty old saying goes, “it is better...

Former president Thabo Mbeki for a long time has been operating in the quiet, mostly in the background, keeping a low political profile.  His demise...

It was May Day, also known as Workers’ Day, on Wednesday yet many would be forgiven for their need to be reminded or even...

The tenure of Jacob Zuma as president of South Africa and the ANC has exposed and laid bare the hidden dominant culture and values...

Our opposition parties must help build, not destroy To be a political party in opposition benches should not mean to conspire against one’s country flag,...

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced he is worried that the US and Israel may seek a regime change in South Africa, especially since the country...

Black people must love themselves, love their languages and know and honour their clan names, and not feel constrained or shy to proclaim them...

Democracy, as imperfect as it is, requires the participation of citizens, and it is the participants who will make it come alive and close...

Selby Bokaba In the early 1980s, then South African apartheid president PW Botha created what was known as “black local authorities” in the black townships....

 MdhlelaIt is difficult to understand fully, without second-guessing, where the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) is headed to, or whether it will ever,...

This week, I was perusing TikTok when I came across a video of Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal’s Ebongweni Maximum Correctional Centre. The clip provided an insider’s...