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Climate literate youth: The key to environmental justice
Every June, World Environment Day is observed. In South Africa, in the same month, we reflect on the sacrifices of the 1976 youth as...
Dhladhla’s passing at work: An ongoing toxic workplace regime
In my industrial sociology class with the late Prof Eddie Webster in the mid-1990s, I was introduced to how the South African apartheid workplace...
TVET colleges investing in youth and future economy
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges have increasingly become a topic when debating South Africa’s post-school education and training system and youth...
Bring-and-share Cabinet: When coalition politics eats the law
To understand what happened last Wednesday when the Democratic Alliance leader issued a statement that effectively reshuffled the Cabinet, it helps to begin not...
Russian, Persian grandmasters have advantage over the West
Reading Western and Ukrainian media, one would be convinced that the Ukrainian forces are winning and advancing on the front lines. That their drone...
Disillusioned generation needs action, not empty words
The Electoral Commission of South Africa opened more than 23 700 stations this weekend to register voters for the 2026 local government elections. Yet, behind...
African nations push fisheries transparency at global summit
The 11th Our Ocean Conference, held in Mombasa, Kenya, concluded with a call for African countries to accelerate fisheries transparency reforms as part of...
Concern as 61 Mpumalanga schools are deemed beyond repair
Thousands of children across Mpumalanga are attending schools that have deteriorated so badly that the provincial government says are no longer worth repairing and...
Power outage at Free State police station cripples crime fighting
The Boithuso police station in Botshabelo, Free State, has been without power for the past two months due to damage to its underground infrastructure...
Suspected rhino poacher shot dead in gunfight with police
A suspected poacher was shot dead during a gunfight with Anti-Poaching Unit (APU) members on a farm in Waterberg, police said on Sunday.
The incident...
