Editorial
Springboks’ World Cup victory realised Stofile’s vision
In a compelling analysis of identity and nationhood in post-apartheid South Africa published shortly after the country’s hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup,...
SABC still the primary source of sport of national interest
The SABC’s content delivery obligations for nation-building and social cohesion can never be underestimated or ignored.
The total disregard of this important mandate by commercially-focused...
ANC, DA, EFF, PA elites playing fast and loose with municipal...
Every nation is run by a ruling class that is often divided into different political parties. But the ruling elite has many fraternal ties...
Let there be light on Phala Phala
Let there be light on Phala Phala
We are not cynics, and so we congratulate the police, and its investigative unit, for the arrest of...
State of emergency may be the answer
Government and Justice
What would a reasonable person think the country ought to do to curb the scourge of violence, the runaway crime statistics, given...
Alleged Nxesi graft must be investigated
What ethical justification was there in the first place for the department of employment and labour and the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) to even...
The transformation story of Erasmus, Kolisi is worth telling
The transformation story of Erasmus, Kolisi is worth telling
Jabu Zwane
South Africa has become the first team to lift the Webb Ellis Cup four times,...
Infrastructure programme is SA’s only hope
The only obvious silver lining we see in the medium-term budget policy statement delivered by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday seems to us...
Cases expose inefficiencies, bias of judiciary in the courts
The Senzo Meyiwa and Hillary Gardee criminal cases illustrate that our entire judicial or security cluster is in tatters. I can say something about...
Bigots like the DA’s Breytenbach are moronic racists
Had DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach known something about the values of ubuntu and human dignity, she would have been measured in articulating her vile...
Embrace mistakes as stepping stones to self-improvement
Life, a beautiful tapestry woven with both joy and sorrow, often presents us with a series of challenges and trials that test our strength,...
Attacks on worshippers: SA hits rock bottom
What kind of country has South Africa become – within a space of two weeks, the beloved land of Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela...
SA does not need AfriForum Youth’s cold-hearted racism
AfriForum and its youth wing, AfriForum Youth, you are playing a dangerous game, unnecessarily exacerbating the already frayed racial tensions in this country, and...
Transnet proves too many crooks spoil the broth
Nothing seems to work seamlessly at the country’s state-owned entities. As Transnet’s implosion worsens, so does the fear of what the future might hold...
Cadre deployment is not behind SA’s collapse
The ongoing court application by the DA against the ANC’s cadre deployment policy, and subsequent judgments of the high court, has again brought this...
Getting SA back on track: new 2024 government’s main role
The main business of the coming new government of 2024-2029 is to get South Africa back on track to where we were around 2004.
Then...
It’s official: SA is suffering from a crime epidemic
South Africa, a country many sacrificed their lives for so that many may enjoy a better life, this week sadly earned the title as...
Nasty political opinions do not build a country
So many values of truthfulness and uprightness in our country’s political and public life are required as if imposed by the gods of logic...
Africa should dream big and offer a united front to world
Mosibudi Mangena
The African Union (AU) was invited to the G20 summit held in India three weeks ago. That was fresh on the heels of...
Our diversity makes us a stronger nation
Our diversity makes us a stronger nation
If only to repeat the obvious, South Africa is a diverse country, with varied cultures, and no single...
The proposed State Asset Management SOC Ltd
One of the key aspects of the State Asset Management SOC Ltd that will own all of 700 state-owned enterprises in South Africa entails...
New kids on the block threatening ANC’s
What do leaders of society do when their territory is threatened by invaders wanting to dislodge their self-professed authority?
The ANC leadership has over the...
Sassa: show compassion and do what is right
Nelson Mandela, the father of this nation, taught us to care, and various foundations of care have been formed around his name, and they...
The tragedy of land dispossession and land invasion in South Africa
In South Africa there is no land that has no owner at the deeds office or is not under the authority of a local...
Zulu: what are you doing to pensioners?
Zulu: what are you doing to pensioners?
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has nothing substantive to offer in defence for the shabby way her department...
Paying tribute to Buthelezi
The death of the doyen of South Africa’s politics, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, marks an end of an era, whose timespan was populated by great...
Marshalltown tragedy caused by indifference
Marshalltown tragedy caused by indifference
If we evaluate the five-storey building fire tragedy that occurred in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, on Thursday, in isolation of other factors,...
All our leaders need to embrace Brics
Government and Justice
I wonder, not with cynicism but with discerning curiosity of interrogation, what lasting dividends might accrue to us as South Africans, with...
