Playing with lives of kids
26 April 2020
When the government relaxed regulations to allow child visitations for parents not living together, South Africans breathed a sigh of relief because...
Heroic health workers must be rewarded
26 April 2020
The multibillion-rand stimulus package announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa this week and his decision to slowly open up the economy must be...
UIF is failing the nation
19 April 2020
When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a national lockdown 24 days ago, it was apparent from his statements that small businesses and companies...
Preserving life must be the priority
The world economy has gone through many crises before and has always come back stronger – with the 2008 global financial crisis a good...
Poor lives matter too
5 April 2020
In an opinion expressed on this space last week, we came short of predicting that government will mismanage the social distancing required...
Don’t put our lives at risk
29 March 2020
Behind the very idea of a lockdown is the importance of social distancing – something we, as a country, ought to uniformly...
Being critical is not unpatriotic
22 March 2020
One of the best things to come out of the outbreak of coronavirus in our country is our unity of purpose, though,...
Mbalula’s insult to the nation
15 March 2020
Transport minister Fikile Mbalula’s comments this week that the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture “is a place for everybody to...
Eskom: De Ruyter’s treacherous path
8 March 2020
At the time of this appointment, Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter inspired confidence, hitting all the right notes by promising to bring...
How ready are we for coronavirus?
1 March 2020
The first confirmed coronavirus case in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, should serve as a wake-up call to our government to get...
