Opinion
Gauteng’s crime decline demonstrates value of coordinated law-enforcement action
The latest crime statistics for Gauteng offer an important lesson in the fight against crime that policing works best when it is not left...
Busani Ngcaweni | Politicians can be trained for sudden hostile encounters
In 2024, while on sabbatical in China, I visited the Shanghai Party School, where one of the departments I was introduced to was responsible...
Mbuyiselo Botha | Spring Day killing: Discipline does not mean death
It is a tragedy beyond words when a nation not only tolerates the death of its young but celebrates it, even going so far...
Mbalenhle Zuma | Five women’s bodies remind me why I stopped...
I stopped jogging long before a fifth woman’s body was discovered in Kempton Park.
I don’t know what happened to those women. I don’t know...
Mahlengi Bhengu | IEC court battle is bigger than the ANC
South Africa’s latest electoral dispute has quickly become an ANC story. That is understandable. The ANC remains the country’s largest political party and what...
Hein Wyngaard | Majodina, public discourse, and the dignity of Cape...
“The strange career of a troublesome word”, is the subtitle of African-American legal scholar Randall Kennedy’s 2002 book on the N-word, regarded as “the...
The oval game has mastered what football keeps botching
The orderly and decorous manner in which the sold-out Springboks versus All Blacks Test match at FNB Stadium was organised has left some of...
Shaheer Lala | The dupe economy is a brand crisis, not...
Every board watching a cheaper copy erode its margins reaches for the same lever – they cut the price. The instinct misreads the threat....
Biko’s death is not history until truth and justice prevail
On September 12, 1977, Bantu Stephen Biko died alone on a mat in a prison cell in Pretoria. He was 30. His death was...
The centre must hold: In defence of ANC engine room
I know Comrade Mondli Gungubele, so I must speak honestly. Friendship cannot demand silence or require us to call a wrong by another name.
Comrade...












