Editorial

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...

The advent of social media and easy access to the internet has turned the world upside down. Every Joe Soap and the fellow next door...

Matome Chiloane Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the late Seaparankwe, said: “Do not judge me by my triumphs. Assess me according to the number of times I’ve...

Mosibudi Mangena  As we enter the 2024 year of national and provincial elections, there are some in our midst who have decried the mushrooming of...

Since the dawn of democracy, efforts have been made to ensure that the courts are institutions in which law is applied without fear, favour...

The 50th Brics summit held in Johannesburg late last year is regarded by most analysts as epochal in both geoeconomic and geopolitical terms. As...

South Africa as a signatory to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (genocide convention) is duly permitted...

The angels must be stomping the ground with throaty joyfulness in a gig to welcome back the returning son of the soil – back...